Dear Mr. Cornwell, Ive enjoyed nearly all your books. The Winter King chronicles are my favorites. Recently, I had a question about one of your characters, so I looked it up on your website. Thanks to your excellent search engine, I soon found the information I was looking for. Thanks! While I was reading your answers, I saw where you wondered why Ban Tarleton has always been portrayed as a villain in movies like The Patriot. Actually, there IS one positive movie about him, albeit it was a 1986 comedy called Sweet Liberty. An American history professor writes a best selling novel about the battle of Cowpens, so a Hollywood company comes to his home town to make a movie of it. However, the director wants to portray Ban Tarleton as a dashing romantic hero, much to the horror of the professor, who wrote Ban as the usual sadistic tyrant. I thought it was quite funny, but then, Im often the annoying sort of pedant who points out all the historical inaccuracies while the rest of the audience is just trying to enjoy a good story. ;-) Sincerely, Jean E. McIntosh