Dear Sir, I just want to say I am very pleased to have found you and your writings. I dearly love to read, but I feel the Authors that I enjoy don’t stay around long. It is very hard for me to pick up a book, especially one’s I had never heard of. At the price of books, I want to make sure I get my money’s worth of reading, as most people will. But, I get into so many books these days that start well, and then become what I call a “cartoon image” later on. They just don’t give you the real feeling of being in the story. I happened to find your books, and only because I used to enjoy watching the Sharpe series on tv(I love Sean Bean’s acting skills), I thought I would give it a try. I honestly never knew the series was from a book. Sad to say, I have not started on the Sharpe books, yet. I started with the Saxon Tales. I will admit it started slow for me, because I am generally not interested in the Middle ages. With in a short while, the intrigue, the bouncing back and forth, the never knowing what is going to happen drove me like a fiend. I found my newest favorite Author. While I despised the fallibility of Lord Uhtred’s character, I came to love him for it. it made him real. Not larger than life as most writer’s do. I still feel he has a little bit too much of good luck, but that bad luck spins him around like a yo yo in a tornado. Because of my strange work hours, it does take me a week to finish a book. I am now on the Burning lands and am not looking forward to the ending. Not at all. I will move on to the Sharpe books I have and pray they conquer me as the Lord Uhtred has. Mr Cornwell, I can not thank you enough, nor describe my gratitude to you in finding your works. the best thing I can offer you is that these books will be kept for ever, and reread over and over and over. I only have three other Authors that I can say captivate me in that same manner. Thank you for your works, your imagination, and may you continue to award your fans with such brilliant books. Respectfully yours, Dan Shively II