Hi Bernard, Just waiting for your next book and a thought occurred to me. I have read in these “your question pages” that you regret killing off Obadiah Hakeswell. Let me speak for those of your readers who wished Obadiah dead long before you actually did the deed. He should have been eaten by those tigers at Seringapatam. He deserved it for that put up job to get Sharpe flogged. Not to mentioned all the other times you used your Godlike abilities of author to spare him. I really blame Sharpe for not finishing him off sooner…what with all the mercy he showed Obadiah and none for the Kings enemies?

Bob Long