You’re an amazing man! I have just come across the Sharpe TV-series. I love them. Fantastic ability you posses to invent histories, and characters with so much human complexity. That Sharpe slept with his former lover the night before he loses his wife Tereza is painfully frustrating, real and so symbolic too.. Many story tellers would have told how he turned down the sexy as hell Elizabeth Hurley. But you show what men are dealing with being real men (of honor, and lust). I’m a very busy man from Denmark, so I don’t read books. But the extraordinary amazing stories has kept me stock in front of the telly when I have the time (I’m now at series number 6). That and the fact that I was curious whether someone living would have such skill and connection to Napoleonic times, made me search for the author.. Let me know if you ever come to Scandinavia. I will invite you and you wife for dinner. Keep up the fire field marshall :-) ..and please excuse my English spelling. Best regards, Niels (29) from Demark Scandinavia