Sharpe's Assassin
$22.18
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2022
Summary
SHARPE IS BACK.
The global bestseller Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe. If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe …
Paris, 1815
Richard Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he’s the army’s loose cannon - but also its most formidable weapon.
With violence brewing in the aftermath of Waterloo, and a secretive group of revolutionaries hell-bent on avenging Napoleon’s defeat, Sharpe is ca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008184049 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0008184046 |
| Author: | Bernard Cornwell |
| Publisher: | Harpercollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | The Sharpe Series |
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Critics Review
Praise for Bernard Cornwell:
‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘Strong narrative, vigourous action and striking characterisation, Cornwell remains king of the territory he has staked out as his own’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Like Game of Thrones, but real’ OBSERVER
‘Blood, divided loyalties and thundering battles’ THE TIMES
‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive’ George R.R. Martin
‘He’s called a master storyteller. Really he’s cleverer than that’ TELEGRAPH
‘A reminder of just how good a writer he is’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Nobody in the world does this better than Cornwell’ Lee Child
‘Cornwell’s skill [is] in ageing his warrior-hero, who now creaks as he fights and is haunted by those he has loved and lost’ THE TIMES
‘The master still adding to his wonderful Saxon Chronicles’ SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE
‘Legendary … excellent storytelling, as ever’ SUNDAY SPORT
‘A violent, absorbing historical saga, deeply researched and thoroughly imagined’ WASHINGTON POST
Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a novel instead and has been writing ever since. He and Judy divide their time between Cape Cod and Charleston, South Carolina.
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