I’m currently working my way through the Sharpe books after inspiration of a weekends worth of the Sharpe series as recently broadcast on BBC tv recently. Now even more so with the books; I’m wondering If Sharpe & Hakeswill were written as 2 sides of the same coin. As In that both come from backgrounds of severe deprivation & loss of family contact but take different paths on the question of morality. Also how much of Hakeswill’s madness is him and how much due to the mercury treatment from the surgeon in TIGER or am I barking up the wrong tree? Eryk