Dear Sir, every once in a while I feel the need to re-read my entire Sharpe collection, am just in the middle of Sharpe’s Fury. I have some questions relating to Lord Pumphrey, in Sharpe’s Havoc it was mentioned that he had ordered the death of Sharpe’s lover, but left it there….now in this book Sharpe find out the truth through another lover and is talked out of extracting total revenge by Pumphrey (although he’s left shaken and a thwarted financially) – is this unfinished business and do you intend for it to re-surface? Or did Pumphrey really exist? In which case I realise you cannot extract too much revenge on Sharpe’s behalf. I ask this cos my take on Sharpe is he’s resourceful so he usually finds a way and to a certain extent he holds a grudge…..am I wrong?

Also I think you’ll find my next point very strange indeed……When I read these wonderful books and Sharpe and Harper are speaking, in my head I’m hearing Sean Bean and Daragh O’Malley etc; strange especially when in your books I’d bet Sharpe is supposed to have a London accent…..I cant help it sorry….. I watched the films first and in turn bought every Sharpe book from Sharpe’s Rifles onwards!!! Lee