I just wanted to thank you for your very entertaining books. They carried me though the winter(as TV, short of some PBS shows, is garbage). I had just finished Patrick O’Brian’s “Aubrey/Maturin” series and my daughter bought me the first 5 books of C.S. Forester’s “Hornblower” series for Christmas. Then I was out of books for a couple of weeks and my wife picked up “The Archer’s Tale” (“Harlequin” sorry), then the “Vagabond” and the “Heretic” at the library. I enjoyed them. From the jackets I rediscovered you were the author of the worthy series on PBS “Sharpe’s Rifles”. Since I’ve never seen a movie or a show that could do a book justice and I was interested in the period setting fron O’Brian’s work, I have been reading your “Sharpe” series with a good deal of enthusiasum and appreciation. Chronologically I am up to “Sharpe’s Sword”. I only regret that I find them enthralling and therefore a fast read. I appreciate the stories and your historical notes and have to believe you enjoyed writing them as much as I did reading them. Thank you once again. Roger Eddy