Dear Mr Cornwell Would that I had possessed the funds and the timing to have saved us all from that “King Arthur’ film debacle. For years I’ve fantacized about acquiring the funding to shoot your version of the Arthurian saga, but now we are left with this watered down pitiful version which, thankfully, came and went with nary a ripple in the waters of the cinematic art. I’m ploughing through the Sharpe books at the moment and was a little confused at the apparent death and then re-apperance of Hawkeswill, the sudden loss of the Sarah character and some other little idiosyncratic anomolies, until I took the time to look at the publishing dates of the individual books in the series. Ahah, said I, all is well. I’m just curious why you created the series and then went back to fill in certain gaps in the timeline of the Napoleonic wars? Not that it matters. This is just a very long winded way of letting you know that I love your work and look forward to each new book with high anticipation. I just discovered “Scoundrel” which I will read when Sharpe is at his destination, wherever that turns out to be. Rest assured that if I ever find the necessary backers, Pendragon will see the light of projectors. Best wishes, Mick Fowler