Sharpe's Escape
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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned┬аSharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His MajestyтАЩs Army at the siege of Seringapatam.
SharpeтАЩs job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Discarded by his regiment, Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus тАУ a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, PortugalтАЩs ancient university city.
SharpeтАЩs Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall MassenaтАЩs crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die.
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Bernard Cornwell is the author of over fifty novels, including the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales, which serve as the basis for the hit Netflix series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.
