Sharpe's Siege

Sharpe's mission has seemed simple: capture a small unguarded French coastal fort cripple Napoleon's supply lines and retreat across the sea. But behind the lines Sharpe's old enemy Pierre Ducos awaits Sharpe's arrival with a battalion of French soldiers and a vicious commanding general who keeps the scalps of his dead enemies as trophies. <p/>Outmaneuvered by Ducos's treachery and abandoned by his own navy Sharpe has only two choices: to escape with the aid of the charming unscrupulous American mercenary Cornelius Killick or die.