[email protected] reviewed Sharpe's company by Bernard Cornwell
Things aren’t going well
5 stars
A Grindy downbeat novel that isn’t a slog.
280 pages
English language
Published May 11, 1982 by Collins.
Bold, professional, ruthless - hero and man of actionThe Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the authorIt was a hard winter. For Richard Sharpe it was the worst he could remember. He had lost his command to a wealthy man – a man with money to buy the promotion Sharpe coveted. And from England came his oldest enemy – the ruthless, indestructible Hakeswill – utterly intent on ruining Sharpe.But Sharpe is determined to change his luck. And the surest way is to lead the bloody attack on the impregnable fortress town of Badajoz, a road to almost certain death – or unimagined glory...
A Grindy downbeat novel that isn’t a slog.