Hello Mr Cornwell, I must tell you I have enjoyed all your Sharpe books. They are exciting stories as well historically accurate. I also have enjoyed reading your other novels. I realize you have a very large fan base and can not answer all the letters you receive, but I have some questions and hope you are interested enough to answer me. Your novels, “Sharpe’s Rifle”, “Sharpe’s Eagle”, and, “Sharpe’s Gold”, appear to be printed around 1981. Yet, in them you make reference to Sgt. Hakeswell, Capt Morris, the Tippoo Sultan of Mysor and that Sharpe saved the life of the future Duke of Wellington. These characters appear in “Sharpe’s Tiger” which appears to have been published perhaps some sixteen years later. When you wrote those earlier stories, did you already have an outline or draft of the Sharpe’s Tiger story just waiting to be fleshed out?

I can see it would be difficult to find any more battles to put Sharpe and Harper in, but have you ever considered putting their sons together in some future military adventure? Thanks, Ron Chennisi