Mr. Cornwell, I am thrilled that The Burning Land will be hitting the streets in the not-too-distant future. When you wrote the first novel in the series, did you set out to model the Uhtred character after Richard Sharpe a little? Sharpe could be a reincarnated and only slightly more civilized version of Uhtred. Both are vicious and deadly in combat and possess the same “I’ll kick your butt and steal your girlfriend” attitude. Everyone can use a little bit (maybe very little bit) of Uhtred and Sharpe in themselves.

Robb Mansfield