I admire your books, honorable, clever, brave men doing honorable, clever, brave deeds. Plus a lot of history to boot. They are the sort of inspiring stories which keep spirits up in times such as these. Well written, fascinating to read. I was especially impressed that Vince Flynn added a jacket blurb to your lasted Saxon Chronicle – The Burning Land. He too is inspiring, treating with fairness and forcefulness a much maligned and poorly defended group who do so much to protect and defend our way of life. I sense you must be searching for other themes to write about, that perhaps some of the old ones (i.e., Sharpe) perhaps are hard to work up creativity for. Thus someone else wrote the recently televised stories. But still, Sharpe is your man. I can’t imagine though what would substitute for shield walls, forlorn hopes, Arthurian legends, a yew bow or a racing yacht. I have not tried your Starbuck or Redcoat stories, though I am fascinated by the history of that era. Too much of a Reb perhaps. But I am eager to try your new one – The Fort. Maybe another Kenneth Roberts story brewing? He, and Howard Pease or Forester, and later Henty were all early historical fiction authors for me. I see others would like to see you try mysteries more, they were good reads as well. And your Gallows thief was quite a pleasant surprise, not unlike one of Boswell’s less well known volumes, which had a less fortunate ending than yours. A real travesty of justice denied. Not unlike your accounts of Christian charity denied. Sad, sad eras. Perhaps these themes are too difficult to handle well in a movie dramatization, though Eco’s Name of the Rose handled it well. But then the lead actor sold that movie – and the hint of a Sherlock Holmes character. With all the blood and fire in so many contemporary movies, that part of your stories should not discourage producers. But Russell Crowe is probably the only male lead that would be credible. I think your Archer tales would be a good place to start a movie series. Anyway, again I thank you for your persistent creativity and inventiveness, these are not just forceful characters, but intelligent ones as well. Regards, Larry M. Southwick Cincinnati, Ohio