Just now, not five minutes ago, I finished War Lord. It was the bittersweet final passage of every book you have written. I remember when my wife doing her Christmas shopping brought home a book she thought I might enjoy, one of the Starbuck Chronicles. As a history major turned lawyer, I have savored every sentence of every page of Sharpe, Grail Quest, Stonehenge, Arthur, all the stand alone stories, and everything else you ever published. The most amazing thing about your stories is that each series stands alone in its own unique writing style! I don’t know of any other author that has pulled that off as well as you. In no small part because of you, I hiked the Ridgeway from Avebury past the hill forts and Alfred’s victory at Edingtun. I can’t possibly thank you for what your work has meant to me. I’ve read them all, and if you wrote a hundred more, I would read them too. Thanks!
John M. Smith