From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell another exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Five years after the Battle of Waterloo Sharpe’s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend Don Blas Vivar is missing in Chile reported dead at rebel hands – a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. Sharpe along with Patrick Harper find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse neither man can imagine that dangers that await them in Chile…
