Dear Bernard: Your books are magnificent. Characters, history, romance, valor. We run out of words to express our admiration of your prodigious output. As a former rifleman of the RB the 95th or Sharpe’s own as we are now being called. I joined from Liverpool to the Rifle Depot at Winchester in 1956 as a 16 year old boy entrant and ran full tilt into the British Army Class System. I now live in Williamsburg, Virginia and am currently writing about the role of the 60th Royal American Regiment in the Seven Years War or the French and Indian War as it’s called here. Whilst living and soaking up the history of our famous regiment, its heroes and achievements I came across “SparrowHawk”, the works of Edward Cline. Ed lives a few miles away at the revered battlefield of Yorktown and is currently finishing his 6th volume saga of pre-revolutionary fiction which will, I am sure, compliment your own wonderful stories. Ed’s web site is www.edwardcline.com. Sorry about being so long winded, but have meant to drop you a line for ages. I will close by saying that you and Ed Cline are two of the finest writers of adventure stories that it has been my pleasure to read. Sincerely, Robert Laurence