Major Sharpe finds himself a fugitive hunted by enemy & ally alike Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army's campaign with grim expectancy For victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain & Spain
- an alliance that must be maintained at any cost Pierre Ducos the wily French intelligence officer sees a chance both to destroy the alliance & to achieve a personal revenge on Richard Sharpe & when the lovely spy La Marquesa takes a hand in the game Sharpe finds himself enmeshed in a web of political intrigue for which his military expertise has left him fatally unprepared Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears