Capt. Richard Sharpe series
HarperCollins
September 2006
On Sale: August 22, 2006
Featuring: Richard Sharpe
352 pages ISBN: 0060530480 EAN: 9780060530488 Hardcover Add to Wish List
For more than twenty years, Richard Sharpe, the brave
and dashing officer who rose from rags on the street to a
commission in his majesty's army, has been thrilling
audiences on both the page and on screen. Now the
incomparable Bernard Cornwell ("the greatest writer of
historical novels today"*) returns with a thrilling new
installment-the first new Sharpe novel in more than two
years.
The year is 1811. With the British army
penned into a small part of Portugal, and all of Spain
fallen to the invader except for the coastal city of Cádiz,
the French appear to have won their war. Captain Richard
Sharpe has no business being in Cádiz, but when an attack on
a French-held bridge goes disastrously wrong,
Sharpe-accompanied by Harper, his loyal Irish sergeant, and
the obnoxious Brigadier Moon-finds himself in a city under
French siege. It is also a town riven by political rivalry.
Some Spaniards believe their country's future would be best
served if they broke their alliance with Britain and forged
a friendship with Napoléon's France; their cause is only
strengthened when some letters written to a prostitute by
the British ambassador fall into their possession. They
resort to blackmail, and Sharpe, raised in the gutters of
London and taught to fight, is released into the alleys of
Cádiz to find the woman and retrieve the letters.
Yet defeating the blackmailers will not save the city. That
is up to the charismatic Scotsman, Sir Thomas Graham, who
takes a small British force o attack the French siege lines.
The attack goes horribly wrong; Sir Thomas's outnumbered
army is trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea, and
on a March morning, at Barrosa, Richard Sharpe finds himself
embroiled in one of the most desperate infantry struggles
ever fought. Sir Thomas has his own reasons for revenge, as
does Sharpe, who goes into battle seeking the French colonel
who precipitated the disaster that stranded Sharpe in Cádiz.
In a bloody and stirring battle, Sharpe and the English get
their revenge and their victory, but at a terrible cost. A
triumph of both historical and battle fiction, Sharpe's
Fury will sweep both old and new Sharpe fans into their
hero's incredible adventures.
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