Dear Mr Cornwell, I write in appreciation of the Sharpe books. I am in my 60’s and had lost interest in fiction of any sort, nothing could hold my interest. The Sharpe series has rekindled my fiction reading and set me off in several research directions including history, planning a holiday to Spain, and getting a look at a real Baker rifle. Years ago I fired a Brown Bess musket copy made from railway line in north Africa circa WW1. Thanking you Jeff Cole