Dear Sir, I am currently reading your series of Sharpe and the Starbuck Chronicles and have become addicted to each, having read in order the Sharpe series and just finished Sharpe’s Sword but I must tell you that I was disappointed that Sharpe was unfaithful to his wife, Teresa in the book and especially with someone only because she is beautiful. I know you always pair him with beautiful women and wonder why for once he just couldn’t have fallen for someone(before he married) who was pretty or attractive or even plain and not beautiful. To be honest, I don’t like a lot of the traits you have given Sharpe but like most women, can’t help feeling sorry for him. I shudder at times while reading the novels an sometimes want to brain him and you for making him too much of a rogue but maybe that’s what makes him exciting but it is disconcerting that he is so shallow. Most of the women he beds are frilivous girls who wouldn’t know what the word woman meant. You married him off to Teresa and she’s not much better than he is, in the sense that she likes to kill too. I love the books and you are an excellent writer but the women’s characteristics are upsetting because nearly all of them seem to use him and other people to get what they want. Your detail is exact and riviting but I must admit that sometimes I only scan the battles because they bring all that blood and gore alive in my mind and I hate war. I took a year off from my profession to write, a dream I have always aspired too and have completed three novels and am on the fourth. And I never really sit down either and put the characters down on paper but let them develop as I write. The story seems to find its own way each day and I follow along. In case you don’t know, since you’ve been published for a number of years, it is extrememly difficult to be published today. But I refuse to stop writing. I am a good writer, not in the genere you are but in a different manner. I read Stonehenge and am planning to read all your novels. Thank you sir for reading this. Juey