Book Review for

Sharpe's Havoc (Portugal 1809)
by Bernard Cornwell
 

The 7th in the Richard Sharpe series.
While in Portugal, Sharpe is given a mission to find 19 year-old
Kate Savage, who has apparently run off with Colonel Christopher,
a British officer who is secretly trying to negotiate peace by having
one of Napoleon's generals declared King of Portugal. Sharpe suspects
that Christopher is either acting on his own or is a traitor. Sharpe
and his rifleman are then cut off from the main British army and
must defend themselves against large odds near a small Portuguese
village. He is assisted by Lieutenant Vincente, a lawyer and poet
 turned soldier, and his ever-loyal, ever Irish, Sergeant Harper.
A very exciting and gratifying story.


 
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