Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (March 2009)

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“Cornwell gives the [listener] vivid settings and the sound and smell of eighteenth-century warfare better than anyone else.” —Newport News Daily Express

It is a perfect plot for Napoleon: stop Wellington’s forces in Spain and destroy Major Richard Sharpe.

An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe. The pawn in a plot conceived by his archenemy, Pierre Ducos, Sharpe is condemned to die as an assassin. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive—a man hunted by both ally and enemy alike.

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.