Dear Mr. Cornwell, I’ve posted a few questions here before but not for a while and I just wanted to know which of the Sharpe books is your favourite (mine is Sharpe’s Company because Hakeswill makes a welcome return and I love the scene where Sharpe attacks the breech and the British are using his name as a war cry). I feel that after Sharpe’s Regiment Sharpe becomes a lot more ‘vulnerable’ and weaker – was this your intention? And if so was it a hard choice to make? I recent finished Heretic (love the series – it’s good to see that our longbow was hated by the French so much) and then Rebel shortly afterwards. Am I right in thinking that the French colonel is Sharpe’s son (Sharpe never married Lucille and his name was Lassan)? – if so which one is it. I may be wrong about this there’re so many characters in your books and I might have got confused. One more question have you ever read the Last Legion (by Valerio Massimo Manfred) and any of the Drani books by David Gemmell an what do you think of them? I feel The Last Legion has the most original take on the origins of King Arthur and Excalibur Christopher Horgan (aged 16-England)