I bet you get requests like this all the time but I would dearly love to read the rest of Nate Starbuck’s story and discover the ultimate fate of the Faulkner Legion in the War between the States. I have been a fan of your novels for many, many years.I actually moved to your novels thru the novels of David Gemmel (some leap, right!) I was into Dungeons and Dragons as a youngster and David Gemmel’s battle scenes especially the Nadir’s great assault against Dros Delnoch actually seized me like nothing I had ever read. Someone suggested that your battle scenes were even more realistic and blood curdling. They were right and I discovered Sharpe. To quickly find you had written your own take on the Arthurian legend was balm to my soul. Not to flatter but I believe you to have been the most influential author of my formative literary years. I have been a lover of historical fiction (especially the adventurous sort) ever since. Sharon Penman, Newt Gingrich, George MacDonald Fraser (I absolutely adore Flashman, along with Richard Sharpe and Roland of Gilead they are my literary heroes) and many others but I have always retained my soft spot for your characters. When a reader gets to know a character as well as one can get to know Sharpe the afterthought (if you like) novels are sometimes the most welcome. I sadly thought we had seen the end of Sharpe after his adventures in South America and the end of the Napoleonic Wars. I was honestly over joyed when I saw Sharpes Tiger, in fact for me the Indian novels of the series, the prequels I guess were some of the best. It may be just the nostalgia having thought the story over but whatever the reason I always thing of the Indian novels when I think of Sharpe now. I have recently taken to listening to the Audible versions of the Sharpe novels now the Starbuck Chronicles. In the case of Nate and his story you don’t need to look for more scenario’s they are already there. I assumed it would follow the one or two battles per novel model throughout the glorious history of the fabled Army of Northern Virgina, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and all the way through to the dreadful onslaught of the Wilderness and the dismal siege of Petersburg. His story is crying out to be told and I have tears in my eyes asking, hoping for his return. Whatever the outcome of my request I wish you a merry Xmas, a happy New Year and I thank you for many many hours of excitement, suspense and drama throughout the last 35yrs. Keep up the good work.
Yours Sincerely
Stuart.
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