Dear Mr Cornwell, I have just read your article “My History Hero” in January’s edition of BBC History magazine and found it very interesting, especially the comment about him as a politician being “hardly a hero at all”. It got me thinking and I thought what a good story it would be for Sharpe to be sent on covert mission as a spy type character in the Duke of Wellington’ government, a early “James Bond”. I have still to read the Last Kingdom as I am trawling my way through “The Talisman of Troy”, so I can’t offer you a comment. Thanks for your time. David Fletcher of Cirencester.