I just wanted to drop you a note of thanks. Around the beginning of the year I wrote, ordering copies of Sharpe’s Christmas, Sharpe’s Ransom and Sharpe’s story, having located them on the Sharpe’s Appreciation Society webpage. You might guess at my surprise and delight in not only getting these books, but with your autograph on them. (You might also guess at the unbridled envy of my office colleagues when I showed them this boon.) Thank you very much! Besides being a huge fan of Richard Sharpe, I am, and all of us at the office are, huge fans of your work period. We all appreciate your solid story lines, fun and complex characters, and fast-moving action, but how you weave these into actual events of history (with appropriate license) adds an additional element to your works. We often try to scoop one another in being the first to get a copy of your latest offering. (I usually win.) Obviously then, I am very excited to have learned that the next installment of the Saxon Series will be available in the coming months. I immediately shared this with my friends at the office. We will see who is first to get The Burning Land. Once more, thank you very much. Regards Russell Craig P.S. If it means anything, we’d all like to Mr. Richard Sharpe and Patrick Harper on more adventures. There’s always the July Revolution or the Crimean War (good for father-son outings with Patrick-Henri).