Dear Mr. Cornwell, I love all your works and also the Sharpe films. When I heard that a new Sharpe film was being set in India I was, needless to say, delighted. I assumed this would be a mini series encompassing the three Indian novels and perhaps Sharpe’s Trafalgar too. When I subsequently discovered that it was set after Waterloo and not based on your novels I was shocked. The only slither of good news I could find (pther than seeing Sean as Shapre again) was that they were using ‘thousands of extras’ and so hopefully the battles would look better. I was just wondering about your opinions on using an original screenplay rather than your novels and why they chose to ignore such excellent books. I also believe in the original series the worst films were without doubt the ones which were made up from scratch. Many thanks for the decades of reading pleasure. Darren Kent