Sharpe's Devil: Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821From 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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... which might have looked shabby on a beggar's back, bore the faded insignia of a Major, though at the war's end, when he had fought at the greatest widow-making field of all, he had been a Lieutenant Colonel. Now, despite his uniform ...
The black slaves tried not to show their amusement as Patrick Harper clambered onto an animal that looked only half his own size, yet which somehow sustained his weight. An English Major, a choleric-looking man mounted on a black mare, ...
A gardener, who looked Chinese, was digging in the vegetable patch beside the house, while a young woman, fair-haired and whitedressed, sat reading under a gazebo close to the front hedge. She looked up, smiled a familiar greeting at ...
The French officer who had translated the etiquette instructions into clumsy Spanish now looked superciliously at Sharpe and Harper "Did you understand anything at all?" he asked in badly accented English. “We understood perfectly ...
For a second, Rifleman and Emperor stared into each other's eyes, then Bonaparte looked back to Colonel Ruiz. “So you are reinforcements for the Spanish army in Chile?” "Indeed, Your Majesty," the Colonel replied.