Dear Mr. Cornwell:
Along with many of your fans, I’m so grateful to you for writing all your wonderful books. Like many of your readers, I’ve re-read Uhtred’s & Sharpe’s adventures over & over again! I’m also happy to hear of Uhtred’s (possibly final?) book…”old soldiers never die, they just fade away…”
But I’m waiting for Starbuck’s exploits. He is my personal favorite, although Uhtred & Sharpe constantly snipe at his heels. His place in America’s biggest civil conflict needs to be told. By you. We love Uhtred & Sharpe so much precisely because they epitomized the type of warriors needed, though many times not particularly appreciated, at those particular times and places. Men like Uhtred & Sharpe were pivotal to history and, perhaps, never received their due; Uhtred’s & Sharpe’s stories give them that. So that we can remember them.
Nathaniel Starbuck needs to re-engage in the next gruelling & grinding Civil War conflict that follows in his series, that we must read, & that we can see through your gift of story-telling. And you want to tell it. You are too great a story-teller, no mere novelist, to leave him aside as another unsung & unfinished warrior. Please give Nate his time & place. Again, let him march.
Best & Kindest regards,
Lorena Hoo Al-Ali