Mr. Cornwell I have read nearly all your books, I’m currently reading ‘A Crowning Mercy’, and needless to say I am a huge fan. My favorite would have to be your sailing books I love them, Sea Lord, Wild track, Crackdown and Stormchild. I love the ocean myself and get out on boats every opportunity I can but there is something I don’t understand. What is it about grey, cold seas that you love? Myself, I love warm blue waters but I get the feeling you appreciate a cold and harsher climate, am I right? Also I loved Starbuck especially the Bloody Ground, in my opinion your most gruesome description of war, I felt sick reading it in parts – this is something I never felt in the Sharpe novels. I strongly suggest Mr. Cornwell’s sailing books to everyone they are just great. Peter Mozsi