I love Bernard Cornwell's books. By now his Sharpe books are merely excuses for him to write about interesting battles from the Napoleonic wars, but, hey, he does it as well as anyone. Also, if you read much of him you realize he has a formula, but it's a good one. So this book gets *** If you haven't read Sharpe yet, don't start here. Read them in chronological order, either of the writing or of the action. By the way, he's not the heir to Patrick O'Brian that the recent blurb calls him. He's closer to Alexander Kent, but really he's an original, and O'Brian is an original.
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