Dear Bernard In reading that you have said you will not start the Starbuck series until the Sharpe series is finsished and that you have said that there is a least 4 or 5 books left in that series and not counting the fact the viking series will be about 7 or 8 books does that mean all long suffereing Starbuck fans have to wait 7 or 8 years more for another Starbuck when there are a lot of outstanding plot points left over Billy Blythe/Delenay/his family etc etc than argubly in either Sharpe or Uthred’s worlds at the moment Can’t you even throw a bone with a short story on Starbuck there is a gap of the battles of Glendale and Malvern Hill left open between Copperhead and Battle flag to finish (please)????

And I have to ask was Washington Falcouner based on a real life person at all????

P.S In regards to Pakenham are you sure Wellington did not like him cause I have read that while he never thought he was the biggest brain he was very upset at his death and thought the battle plan was good idea gone wrong and held the navy and Cochrane in particular responsible.

Which leads me to the final question while you have said you will not get Sharpe to Canada (ohh for shame Sharpe did not meet Issac Brock) have you ever considered a seperate series on the war of 1812 there were some major battles and the fact goes you half english/canadian living in the US would probably mean your the most ideal to write about that conflict??? Regards Tony