Dear Mr Cornwell, Merry Christmas! Thank you for giving us this opportunity to speak to you. Like the others I love all the books. I really don’t have a favorite. They are all good. I do have a question after re-reading “Sharpe’s Prey”; there seems to be an implied promise that Sharpe would again be assigned missions by the English spymaster Lord Pumphrey yet I don’t recall him ever showing up again? Was he replaced by the more likable Major Hogan? It’s a minor point, but at 1 AM on a transatlantic flight the mind does often wander. Thank you and Happy New Year! Brendan