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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And of sixteen mules, because four more animals had at last been found and led to the waiting men who, trying to keep their dignity, clumsily straddled the mangy beasts. The black slaves tried not to show their amusement as Patrick ...
... they had held conversations like this, trying to flesh out the ghosts of a past that was fast becoming attenuated. “Bastable,” the name suddenly shot into Sharpe's head, “Thomas Bastable.” "Bastable! That was him, right enough.
"Aye, maybe we are," Harper, accustomed to Sharpe's sudden dark moods, replied with great equanimity, “but we still thought it worth trying, didn't we? Or would you come all this way and stay locked up in your cabin?
The English Major who had led the procession up to the plateau, and who evidently had no intention of paying any respects to General Bonaparte, had stepped in the deep mud of one of the pond banks, and now tried to scrape the muck off ...
And Sharpe, his heart beating as fearfully as if he again walked into battle, went to meet an old enemy. It was all so utterly different from everything Sharpe had anticipated. Later, trying to reconcile reality with ...