Hello Mr Cornwell. Thanks for your reply about Starbuck’s cause. I was grateful for the explanation but I might have worded my question wrong. I meant to say that was it hard to place a hero on the losing team? We know with Sharpe, or Uhtred even Derfel (possibly my favourite character all time) that they can endure the worst because we are content knowing that they will win in the end. (I know Derfel kind of loses eventually), but we know that at some stage Starbuck has to get his ass kicked in the end and that’s not a happy ending. Oh, and thanks for clearing up the argument. Adrian.