Sean Bean stars as the brave soldier Sharpe in two feature length television movies set during the Napoleonic Wars In & Sharpe&s Regiment& a recruiting mission turns dangerous when Sharpe discovers evidence of sleaze & corruption at the highest levels of the army & becomes the target of an assassination attempt The good soldier must now race against time in order to prove his theories In & Sharpe&s Siege& Sharpe marries his sweetheart Jane but immediately has to leave for a daring mission in the Pyrenees While he is away his new wife contracts a deadly disease which has swept through the the British camp but Sharpe realises that he must stay & defeat the French (and his arch-rival Ducos) even though he knows that he may never see his beloved again