Hello – I am currently trying to get through the Sharpe series as fast as possible, currently on ‘Havoc’. I was fascinated how since you went back and wrote prequels to ‘rifles’ how everything seems to fit in. In so much as how he became an officer his first meetings with characters who appear later who you had written had first met sharpe in INdia and such like. It s incredible how everything seems to match up. Had you always planned to write these earlier books about Sharpe’s early career, and thus deliberately left people gagging to find out about his exploite during this time? Also, are there any plans to write about his exploits in Flanders before India, or between Copenhagen and Spain, and Waterloo and ‘Sharpe’s Devil’? Or even post 1820/1? David Berry