A couple of questions. 1. You’ve mentioned the promise Sharpe made about not going to America in ‘Sharpe’s Siege’. I looked and for it and can’t seem to find it. What was the promise and who was it to?

2. You’ve written before about the characters dictating how their stories come out regardless of how you want them to be. Is there an event (like the death of a character, or story change)that shocked you the most? One that totally came out of left field? Thanks, Jonathan Mullins