hi Mr.Cornwell. I’ve been trying to solve that riddle of who Sharpe’s father is since I first read it my first semester in college, and let me just say that after a lot of researching and full out study groups on this subject me and my friends from my dorm think we have the answer. But we’re probably wrong because even we doubt it. Is Sharpe’s father Luke Gardiner? He was a viscount of Mountjoy, but we couldn’t ever find if he was ever in London at the time when Sharpe would have been born around 1776 we think. Ray Guerin Jr