Leo T. reviewed on 12/5/2016 + 1775 more book reviews

I am reading the series in chronological order, lacking only the handful of books that first appeared as short stories, and this is the best so far.
Mr. Sharpe is working with difficult Colonels, as usual, and on detached duty as Wellington seeks to find 'the soft underbelly' of France. He is commanding a landing party made up mostly of Marines from a ship whose captain comes ashore with them, hoping for glory.
Mr. Cornwell's bloody detail continues: "he only saw a man who barred a door that must be opened and Harper came up from the roadway with a sword-bayonet in his right hand and the Frenchman gave a horrid, pathetic sigh as the twenty-three inch blade, held like a long dagger, ripped into his belly. Sharpe saw the blood spilling like water on the cobbles of the archway as he pushed his full weight on to the half-opened gate. Harper twisted the bayonet free and left the guard bleeding and twitching on the drawbridge."

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