Hi Mr. Cornwell. I remember you once commenting that Sharpe’s Devil was your least favorite of the Sharpe novels, and that the only reason you wrote it was that you wanted Sharpe to meet Napoleon, and couldn’t think of any other way to make that happen. With the advantage of hindsight, would it have been possible to write a short story instead of Devil, where Sharpe meets Napoleon as he is held on board the Bellerophon, prior to being sent to St. Helena? Perhaps such a meeting could have been engineered by Captain Chase? Or would such a scenario be unworkable? Alan Kempner