I read the Arthur books then started the Saxon Chronicles…then saw a Sharpe show on BBC America. I was hooked. Sean Bean is a great choice for Richard Sharpe, so much so that I can’t read Sharpe without the indelible image of Bean as Sharpe, Sharpe as Bean. I did want to ask you if you had anything to do with the recent Sharpe’s Challenge? I saw it on BBC America when it premiered and was greatly disappointed…it seemed like Sharpe’s Tiger without the, ahem, tiger but with good old Patrick Harper along for a fight in India. I believe that Dodd made an appearance as did Obadiah Hakeswill…which is truly amazing in that Sharpe had already dispatched the twitching fiend during the Penisular war! Never the less, I am a great admirer of your stories and characters. And even though I did not enjoy the Challenge as much as I had anticipated, Sean Bean as Sharpe is brilliant! Brilliant! Best Regards, Robert Draper (American by birth but proud of my Norman-English extraction.)