Hello Bernard, Thank you so much for all your books! I have read virtually every thing you have written and thoroughly enjoyed everything I have read. Quick question: In Copperhead there is a French Chasseur, of mixed parentage French/English, who’s Father was an English Rifleman, and was named for his fathers best friend and Irishman called Patrick. I forget but I’m sure there was more but anyway to the question, is he actually supposed to be Sharpe’s son or is it just an in joke? Sam Allen