Hi Bernard, I just wanted to add my name to the list of those clamoring for the next Starbuck book. I’ve read everything you’ve ever published (many of them several times over) and though I have a healthy interest in the past, I find purely factual books leave me cold. The (much) larger than life characters of your books keep me awake at night and bleary eyed for work in the morning. The Starbuck Chronicles were the last of your books I have read. Someone once told me they didn’t enjoy them as much as Sharpe, so I didn’t rush to them as quickly as I should have. I read in your response to a previous question that you found writing Sharpe and Starbuck very similar and didn’t wish to write two such books a year. I would like to say that I find Starbuck a much more complex and intriguing personality than Sharpe and I am desperate to see how the story continues. Nevertheless, if another Starbuck book doesn’t come along, I shall doubtless console myself with your next book, whatever it’s subject. Thanks for many happy hours of reading. David Robinson