He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles, whose green jacket he proudly wears. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage.

But do they know that? Richard Sharpe Soldier, hero, rogue-the man you always want on your side. Bernard Cornwell is prolific as an historical author, but don't let that particular dirty word bother you, this novel is thoroughly well researched, excellently paced, packed full of historical detail and yet somehow doesn't get bogged down, and flows from start to finish. I know that, Sharpe said, and you know that. Sharpe's Havoc is, so far, one of the finer entries, too. Theyll fillet our guts, if youll pardon me saying so, sir. From the Back Cover Be prepared for scenes of great action and heroics What are we doing, sir? Were charging that barricade, Sergeant. Amidst the wreckage of a defeated army, in the storm lashed hills of the Portuguese frontier, Sharpe takes his revenge. Cornwell and wife Judy co-wrote a series of novels, published under the pseudonym 'Susannah. He went on to tell the story of Badajoz in his third Sharpe novel, Sharpes Company, published in 1982. Sharpes Eagle was picked up by a publisher, and Cornwell got a three-book deal. But just as he follows the first leads to the missing girl, the French onslaught on Portugal begins and the city of Oporto bes a bloody scene of carnage and disaster as it falls into the hands of the enemy. These were Sharpes Eagle and Sharpes Gold, both published in 1981.

Travelling with a small British contingent, Sharpe is on the lookout for Kate Savage, the daughter of an English wine shipper, who has gone missing a few months before. The world-renowned Sharpe series is now available with gorgeous packaging for a new generation of readers A few years after Richard Sharpes heroic exploits on the battlefields of Trafalgar, Sharpe finds himself once again in Portugal, fighting the savage armies of Napoleon Bonaparte, as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula under their control.

Book Synopsis New York Times Bestselling Author Newly Reissued Richard Sharpe returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula, where he and his men bravely fight the French invasion into Portugal in 1809. About the Book History comes dangerously alive in this New York Times bestseller as Sharpe returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula, to battle against Napoleons invasion.

Sharpe's Havoc by Bernard Cornwell