Dear Mr. Cornwell, I found Harlequin by chance in Finland three years ago and loved it. They are rarely in book stores here in Finland. Then in the Summer of 2003 I found the sequence when vacationing in Dublin and the I just had to go to Amazon to start ordering your books and have read many after that. I’m now reading the Sharpe series, real page-turners and am happy that I have found this series so late, that I have been able to read them in chronological order, even Sharpe’s Escape. I have a comment: I’m wondering about the lines of Torres Vedra. How could they be built so they stayed a secret for the French with all their spies. They must have had a lot of sympathizers in Lisbon, who could have let the French now. If 10.000 people worked a year on this project it is very unlikely that news of it would not have reached the other side. Or perhaps the French thought it to be just a couple of towers as Major Ferreira says in Sharpe’s Escape. Bad evaluation of incoming information. Keep on writing and I’ll keep on reading. Regards, Kimmo Stjärnstedt