I enjoy the Sharpe series. I thought that you were most clever in putting Shape in South America at time when a lot of history happened. Just the sort of skullduggery that Lord Pumphrey would be right in the middle of. I swear that Sharpe could land on a deserted island and find a convent of nuns to look after him. But then none of the women in Sharpe’s life stay around very long, do they? Pity you killed off Astrid though. I’ll be buying Sharpe’s Escape, when it comes out. Richard Oakley