Mr. Cornwell, I am a very recent devotee; having never read any of your books I have, in the past three weeks or so, read the first four Sharpe books and am now eagerly reading The Winter King (and I love the historio-realistic spin you have put on the legend [?]). You’re a master to be ranked with one of my all-time favorites, George Macdonald Fraser. Which leads me to… My questions are two: first, are you a reader and / or fan of the Flashman series? What do you think about it, if anything. And wouldn’t Sharpe and Flashman meeting make a great book? (Yes, I know, it could never be done, lawyers and whatnot, even if authors were willing, but I still smile at the thought. I think they’d despise each other.) Two, why isn’t the Archer’s Tale on your list of books on the website?