We meet again major Hogan who this time opines ‘A wise man once said that the best way to win a war is to do it without fighting’ (p210). There were no atmospheric descriptions of landscapes or backdrops or people, just very tell-tell-tell sequences and scenes. If the French are stopped from crossing the bridge, the British would be able to destroy the Fort they intend to. For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the centre of a battle for the future of Europe. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it’s been his home ever since.

If you never read the Sharpe series of books they centre around Richard Sharpe an Englishman who to avoid arrest joins the British Army. Bernard, if you’re going to keep writing Sharpe, please do him justice, this was just Sharpe by numbers.Napoleon's army may be defeated, but another enemy lies waiting in the shadows – a secretive group of fanatical revolutionaries hell-bent on revenge. This book at times feels like a novelisation of the TV adaptation and it leaves a lot to be desired.

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