Dear Mr Cornwell, I’ve been reading my way through the Sharpe series since last April. Just finished Waterloo. Apart from the terrific characterisation, I love the detail and am in awe of the amount of research which finds it way effortlessly and accessibly into the stories. One wee question….We are told that Sharpe – while living with Lucille – is on a lieutenant’s half pay as he was only a brevet major. Fair enough, but shouldn’t he have been on the half pay of a captain? John Lawson, west Kilbride, Scotland