Please don’t take this as a criticism of your books. But I’m very disappointed and don’t know whom else to write. I watched “Sharpe’s Challenge” on BBC America over the weekend and found it to be incoherent. It appears the script writer took storylines from the “prequel” books that take place in India (Sharpe’s Tiger, etc) and moved the events a couple of decades into the future. I loved those India books, so I was really looking forward to “Sharpe’s Challenge,” but I was very disappointed. I expected a brand new storyline, instead it was a mish-mash of other stories. Now that I’ve read a number of Sharpe books, I can see that the script writers changed a lot of details and often not for the better. However, I still love Sean Bean, although he looked kind of worn out in “Sharpe’s Challenge.” It’s such a pity we have to age! He was so handsome and devil-may-care in “Sharpe’s Rifles!” Now the “Summer of Sharpe” is over on BBC America, but I’m still catching up on your books. I’m looking forward to “Sharpe’s Fury,” which just arrived in my local bookstore. Joan Carr