Mr Cornwell…. Prelim text read and acknowledged I read an article in the Halifax Herald about your recent book signing and regret I missed you. I love the Sharpe series and have either read the books or watched the series on TV. It actually wasn’t the signing that instigated this note, but the short bio that was included. My famly came from Essex – grandfather Harry, born in Roxwell, went to india with Essex Regt, eventiually to Canada after Boer War. He enlisted in WWI at 45. I was born in 1946 in Manitiba and also grew up on C S Forrester which is likely why I now live in Nova Scotia. I hope there are many more Sharpe books to come. I think it is the straighforward concepts of honour and decency combined with a rugged individualism that make Sharpe a great hero. And the books I think focus on that and not on a complex web of intrigue such as is seen in mystery novels. There is intrigue but it is more like real life played on a chess board shaped like Europe. Anyway, thanks for all the wonderful reads and I am looking forward to this latest book. By the way, will Richard ever come out of retirement again?? Eventually I would like to see closure on his life. I recall another series of books – these written by Len Deighton – where the story of his hero Richard Sampson just stopped. I still miss not seeing the end even after about 15 years. Rick Harrington