I am a female who came upon the Sharpe series of books because I saw Sean Bean in the “Fellowship of the Ring” and did research on his other films, discovering he played Richard Sharpe in a large number of British movies. I began “Sharpe’s Tiger” on March 31, 2004, and fininshed “Sharpe’s Devil” this evening (July 22). I would have finished the books sooner but unfortunately had to go to work five days a week. They are wonderful, heart stopping adventures. Sharpe is a MAGNIFICENT character and I was amazed at how you got him out of all the peril he put himself into along the way. He also seemed to have a better character for all his lack of “breeding” than most of the upper class he had to deal with in the army and elsewhere. Thank you so much for such a page turning adventure series. I look forward to reading them all again maybe sometime next year. Bobbe Klimovich