Sharpe's Havoc.

BERNARD CORNWELL

Publication: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003, London

First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Sharpe is brought to Portugal reuniting him with Harper. It is 1809 and Lieutenant Sharpe, who belongs to a small British army that has an insecure foothold in Portugal, is sent to look for Kate Savage, the daughter of an English wine shipper. Before he can begin his search, the French attack on Portugal begins and the city of Oporto falls. Sharpe is stranded behind enemy lines with Patrick Harper and his riflemen. They join up with a group of Portuguese soldiers and try to fight their way back to British lines, but their orders are overridden by Colonel Christopher, a mysterious Englishman who has his own ideas on how the French can be ejected from Portugal. Colonel Christopher sees Sharpe and his riflemen as obstacles to his scheme. There is a newly arrived British commander in Lisbon, Sir Arthur Wellesley, and just when Sharpe and his men seem doomed, Sir Arthur mounts his own counterattack, an operation that will send the French army reeling back into the northern mountains. At that time, Sharpe becomes a hunter instead of the hunted and he will exercise a dreadful revenge on the man who double-crossed him.

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