This book also starts out slowly. Hervey, just returned from India, does his best to get shipped out again, to Portugal.
There he undertakes a supposed evaluation of forts in preparation for a possible British intervention in a civil war deciding who will rule Portugal.
His adventures include handling two women who have an interest in him, one of them being already married.
His mission also causes him to have flashbacks about his previous role as a cornet in the 6th Light Dragoons when he served there 18 years before.
These flashbacks answer many questions readers may have had about Hervey's comments in the previous novels, including how he met his Sgt. Armstrong.
Although this volume is part of a series, most of the others resolved the primary conflict at the ending. This one doesn't and the reader should be prepared for a "to be continued" in the next novel which, unfortunately, is on my wish list.
Actually, the best part of this volume deals with his actions as the new cornet 18 years before.
There he undertakes a supposed evaluation of forts in preparation for a possible British intervention in a civil war deciding who will rule Portugal.
His adventures include handling two women who have an interest in him, one of them being already married.
His mission also causes him to have flashbacks about his previous role as a cornet in the 6th Light Dragoons when he served there 18 years before.
These flashbacks answer many questions readers may have had about Hervey's comments in the previous novels, including how he met his Sgt. Armstrong.
Although this volume is part of a series, most of the others resolved the primary conflict at the ending. This one doesn't and the reader should be prepared for a "to be continued" in the next novel which, unfortunately, is on my wish list.
Actually, the best part of this volume deals with his actions as the new cornet 18 years before.
