Dear Mr. Cornwell, I was a student at West Point, studying the Napoleonic Wars in a History of the Military Art class when I first came across your book Waterloo almost 12 years ago. I enjoyed it immensely but did not immediately continue with the Sharpe series (though I did enjoy Trafalgar and have since begun the series chronologically). I instead discovered an interest in your works set in the Medieval period, particularly the Warlord Chronicles and later, the Saxon Stories. Of particular interest to me is the period of time between Henry I, The Anarchy and the rise of the Angevins and their involvement in the crusades and crusader states. I realize that the popular version of Robin Hood takes place in the latter part of this period and that Dan Brown seems to have unleashed a wave of authors covering Templar stories and the crusades so you may feel that this content is overdone. However, I would love to read more historically accurate stories of this period. Do you have any plans or interest in writing about this time, using either events in Europe or the Levant as a background? If not, would you be so kind as to recommend someone who has? Thank you and keep up the incredible work. I am eagerly looking forward to Saxon6 and will be eagerly looking forward to Saxon7 about 3 days after the former is published.
Dan Rutledge