Dear Mr Cornwell, Thank you SO very much for Entertainment, History, Philosophy, and so much more. I saw a few minutes of a Sharpe film, just having finished reading the Hornblower series, and I said “wow, Hornblower on land, but totally excellent in its own right!” And then by an unnatural coincidence, my wife saw a gentleman reading a Sharpe book on the train, and he was kind enough to offer her a duplicate copy he had of Sharpe’s Tiger. And so I was off! (He was rich, had a Lordship and…nonononono) I’ve just finished the series (well, I have Devil and the small books, but the major attack is over). I have kept certain ones out of my library, for quick reference for study: such wonderful style, a combo of so much. I am also amazed at how you wrote them out of sequence but they meld perfectly! Yes, you are the one creating things, but you wrote yourself into corners and got out of them. (I read them in Universe sequence and keep thinking you had a time machine or really wrote them chronologically and just published them in mixed up order – too technically perfect!) Azincourt is my favourite of your work, but I still have much to enjoy. I’m a Yank who married an Australian girl, yet it turns out I lived not 25 minutes from You…I was born and raised on Cape Cod, living in Osterville, Centerville, and Yarmouth. An avid reader of Everything, I’m stunned I knew nothing of your work until I went halfway around the world. Your transition to Novelist is inspiring, too. Really, all I can say is Wow and Thank You. Fortunately I have more of your books to enjoy. Wishing you all the best (and plenty of inspiration for more)… Best, Wink