Sharpe's Escape

<p><strong>From </strong><em><strong>New York Times</strong></em><strong> bestselling author Bernard Cornwell the tenth installment in the world-renowned</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><strong>Sharpe series chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam. </strong></p><p>Sharpe's 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 - a war fought through the burning pillaged streets of Coimbra Portugal's ancient university city.</p><p>Sharpe's Escape begins on the great gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena's crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die.</p>