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.