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Sharpe's Honor

Sharpe's Adventures seriesbook 16 of 21Next:Sharpe's Regiment(1986) →

A razor-edged series of adventures- DAILY MIRROR

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 and Spain - an alliance that must be maintained at all costs.

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Pierre Ducos, the wily French intelligence officer, sees a chance both to destroy the alliance and to achieve a personal revenge on Richard Sharpe. And 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 is unprepared. Soon he is a fugitive - a man hunted by ally and enemy alike...

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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