Dear Bernard (if I may)

As a novelist myself, I’m amazed at the range and quality of your output. I’m lucky if can manage 800 words a day! The ending of War Lord was elegaic and feels right. But am I wrong that earlier in the series, he’s retired to a monastery? And that was a framing device? I suppose as a reader, we don’t need to be spoonfed, but I was genuinely curious.

David Docherty

Ps. I loved the Sharpe novels as well…