Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (March 2009)

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“The adventure is high and the battle scenes gripping, graphic, and true....Satisfying listening for those who relish derring-do.” —KLIATT

"With a plot up to its neck in blood and guts, this is adventure naked and unashamed." —Mail on Sunday (London)

An honored veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe is drawn into a deadly battle, both on land and on the high seas.

An honored veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe has become a peaceful farmer following Waterloo. But he comes out of retirement to undertake a perilous mission to find his old friend Don Blas Vivar, Captain-General of the Spanish colony of Chile, who vanished without a trace half a world away.

With intrepid Irishman Patrick Harper at his side, Sharpe embarks on a dangerous journey that carries him first to an unexpected interview with Napoleon, then on to Chile, a land seething with corruption and revolt. But when fortune delivers him into the hands of Lord Cochrane, the legendary rebel genius, the real battle erupts. On land and at sea, Sharpe faces impossible odds in a time when tyranny rules, injustice abounds-and Napoleon lurks on the horizon, itching to rekindle the world in a blaze of war.

About the Author: BERNARD CORNWELL’s sweeping historical novels make him a number-one best-selling author in the United Kingdom and around the world. Born in London, Cornwell worked for the BBC and Thames Television before coming to the United States to write full time. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod.