Dear Mister Cornwell sir, after reading your entire Sharpe collection including the short stories, and sending an application to the S.A.S, I am thrilled to be writing to you. Like Harper, I am an Irishman and proud to say you are an exquisite writer. I do wonder if a book will come out in years to come describing the life of Sharpe before India when he was a lad of sixteen in Flanders. That would be interesting. Another question I’d like to ask you would be, would Sharpe’s Devil be made into film. Sean Bean would be the perfect age and no other actor could fill Sharpe’s boots.
Thanks a million
Slan go Foill, god save Ireland
Colum O’Rourke