Then he had to wait well as the editor (Libretto for the price) wants good print result. It comes gradually, a volume here, a volume by. It would be advisable to start with the first book, without it there will be many incomprehensible things despite some reminders about previous events (which can become boring over the volumes). So it is unconditional Bolitho or hate it. Personally, I hope to procure the remaining episodes (a total of 25 volumes), although since Volume 15, love stories occupy a place of ever more intrusive (only two battles in "In the background")
It's still a level above Hornblower and more compared to Thomas Kydd, which is rather bisounours genre.