Dear Mr. Cornwell, I’ve read the Sharpe, Starbuck and Grail quest novels, and enjoyed them all very much, with Shapre the worst (but still very good) and Starbuck the best. But I’ve always wondered in the Sharpe books, What happens to Sharpe’s senior friends in the intelligence department like Ross, Hogan or Nairn? And also in the Indian episodes what happened to General Harris and Baird after Seringapatan? Why is it that after Sharpe discovers Hakeswill had escaped the tigers, that he does not go to Arthur Wellesley and tell him that Hakeswill had betrayed him and Lawford to the enemy and have Hakeswill shot? James