First of all I want to congratulate you on some of the finest action adventure writing ever put down. In my own personal reading the Horatio Hornblower series is the only equivalent. Anyway I just finished Sharpe’s Fury and was preceding onto Sharpe’s Battle. The question I have actually is about Sharpe’s Battle. I read a synopsis that said Sharpe encounters Obadiah Hakeswill again. Wasn’t he killed Sharpe’s Fortress? I thought that Sharpe caught him trying to escape after the fall of Gawilghur. He died after falling into a pit of snakes? In Sharpe’s Battle he returns and tries to rape Teresa an ex-lover of Sharpe’s.

Terry Long