Sharpe’s Enemy
by Bernard Cornwell
‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.’ Sunday Telegraph
Spain, December 1812
In a deathly cold winter on the Spanish-Portuguese border, a group of deserters take British hostages and it falls to Major Richard Sharpe to lead the perilous rescue mission in the biting cold mountains – where he faces one of his oldest, and most cunning, adversaries.
The British army’s fate rests on the hostages’ liberation. Outnumbered and attacked from two sides, it looks like surrender or certain death on the Gateway of God pass. Yet prepared to hold his ground, or risk his life trying, is Sharpe . . .
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Bernard Cornwell’s book ‘Sharpe’s Storm’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-10-27.
Publication date
- January 28, 2010
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Few historical fiction series have earned the lasting reputation of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels. First published in 1981, the series follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a soldier who rises from the lower ranks of the British Army to become one of its most respected officers during the Napoleonic Wars. Combining genuine historical events with…
