The Sharpe Series- Sharpe’s Gold

Bernard Cornwell

• 15 juni 2005
• 9780007218110

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‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday Telegraph

Wellington needed gold, the Spaniards’ gold, or the war would be over, Spain and Portugal lost causes both. 'Something that you, Captain Sharpe, must bring me. Must, do you hear? Must.'

And Richard Sharpe, Captain of the Light Company of the South Essex Regiment, knew that the General had never been more insistent.

But between Sharpe and the gold lay the French army – and Spanish Partisans with no belief that Spain's interest came first with the British. El Catolico, their leader was as ruthless as Sharpe and more savage by far. And when Sharpe took his woman, El Catolico was determined that the Englishman would die…

Bernard Cornwell paints a vivid picture of war in all its brutality, of passion in all its moods, in this superb adventure set in the Peninsular War.

‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday Telegraph

Bold, professional and determined, Richard Sharpe embarks on a desperate mission. He must recover the treasure, vital to the success of the war, now hidden behind enemy lines. The gold is in the possession of a powerful guerrilla leader, feared by ally and enemy alike. And he has no love for Sharpe, the man who has stolen his woman.

But Sharpe’s fiercest battles lie with the British officers, ignorant of his deadly secret and mistrustful of his ruthless methods.