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SHARPE Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe leads his small force into the biting cold of the winter mountains. His task is to rescue the well-born women held hostage by a rabble of deserters. But one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill Sharpe's most implacable enemy. And the rescue is the least of Sharpe's problems. A far greater menace is threatening. With only the support of his own Company and he new Rocket Troop - the last word in military incompetence - to back his gamble, Sharpe cannot afford even to recognise the prospect of defeat. For to surrender - or to fail - would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies... SHARPE'S ENEMY Stirring...imaginative...inventive - EVENING STANDARD
Publication Year: 1985
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0This is one of the best of the Richard Sharpe books.
Sharpe, now a major in Wellington's Army, transitions from tactical to operational command with ease. Heck, Sharpe does everything with ease: a leader of men and a lover of women, he's a male power fantasy character who would cause me to roll my eyes if he weren't so doggone well written.
In this outing, it's the winter of 1812 in Spain and a small army of deserters has been terrorizing the locals. It's up to Sharpe to root them out, and author Bernard Cornwell brings the time and place to life with an immersive, exciting story that pays off several long-running plot threads from the series. That said, one needn't read the 14 previous stories to figure out what's happening here. Cornwell sketches the various characters' back stories well enough for the new reader to feel caught up.
If you like historical adventure fiction, you can't go wrong with 'Sharpe's Enemy.'
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