I just thought I would write and tell you the story of how i fell in love with your books, i hope it doesn’t bore you too much. I am a serving soldier in the 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment, during my time in depot para I went to the market in Richmond (N.Yorks) and stumbled across a copy of Sharpe’s tiger which I used to fill in my weekends in the block! this was in 1999 and since then i have taken at least one of your books to Northern Ireland thrice, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Falkland islands, Holland, Germany, Ascension island, America, Italy, France, not to mention all the short exercises and stop overs in other countries. I have found reading your books a great way of escaping to a different world, albeit one which still has many resemblances to modern day soldiering, and i hope you will keep the books coming until well after my army career ends (potentially another 14 to 18 years!) all the best, Adam Jackson.