Sharpe's Devil: Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821Harper Collins, 2009年10月13日 - 336 頁 From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, another exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe’s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands – a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. Sharpe, along with Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse, neither man can imagine that dangers that await them in Chile… |
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... Spain's American dominions . The coming of his own regiment , the Colonel asserted , could only hasten that royal victory . " Indeed , " the Emperor agreed politely , then moved the conversation to the subject of Europe , and ...
... Spain within the year . " Bona- parte made another scornful gesture at the billiard - room door , then turned his dark eyes on Sharpe . " But who cares about Spain . Talk to me of France . " Sharpe , as best he could , described the ...
... Spain . The Parker family , oblivi- ous to the chaos that was engulfing a continent , could grieve only for their lost Protestant Bibles with which they had for- lornly hoped to convert Papist Spain . Somehow , in the wel- tering chaos ...
... Spain . Who , Doña Louisa now informed Sharpe , had disap- peared . Blas Vivar had vanished . Sharpe , overwhelmed by the suddenness of the informa- tion and by Louisa's arrival , gaped like a village idiot . Lucille insisted that Doña ...