Mr Cornwell
My first contact with Richard Sharpe was when I was handed a copy of 'Sharpes Eagle' as a young Royal Engineer Sapper on deployment to the former Yugoslavia in 1993. Those books helped me get through some particularly trying times during that tour and by the end I had acquired all 10 of the books that had been published to date.
Upon returning from the tour, I bought each book at the earliest opportunity and have since read the whole set time and again in chronological order.
Since then, I have dragged my, long suffering, wife to see the site of the breaches at Badajoz and the battlefield at Talavera.
Today I found myself at a lose end in Malaysia, where I am currently working and decided to watch every episode of the excellent (allowing for a dark-haired londoner morphing into a blond-haired yorkshireman from my hometown!)TV series which was born of the novels.
I found myself thinking about the books and tried to find a way to contact you to answer the all important question - Will Sharpe (and Harper) ever march again?
I thank you for astounding work, which despite having been with me for most of my adult life, I can still pick up and read today as if it were the first time.
Best regards
Carl Wright
I do think Sharpe and Harper will march again!