– Customer review on 10/04/2006 This sees Richard Shapre and co involved in the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813, and is the fifteenth Sharpe adventure in chronological order, and the sixth (I think) to be published...
Sharpe is dishonored and charged for a crime he never committed, and is sentenced to death; he goes undercover to clear his name. Major Ducos provides a wonderful nemesis for Sharpe, all dandified class and subterfuge, in contrast to the brutal frontal assaulting Sharpe. An excellent entry into the Sharpe corpus...
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