I love your books, with Sharpe of course being the catalyst that got me started. I enjoyed all of your books, but the ones that made the most impression on me were surprisingly the Arthur Tales. I had put them off for years and finally when I had literally read all of your books numerous times I picked them up. Tremendous books. My question is, the lack of new Starbuck tale, could it be due to the fact that after Gettysburg especially, but basically after Antietam the American civil war took on a form more reminiscent of World War 1 than earlier times. I know your professed dislike of that period, could that be a mental block to the appeal of finishing Starbuck?

Mark Savannah