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By Bernard Cornwell

ISBN-10: 0061098620

ISBN-13: 9780061098628

ISBN-10: 0066213282

ISBN-13: 9780066213286

The yr is 1805, and the Calliope, with Richard Sharpe aboard, is captured by way of a powerful French warship, the Revenant, which has been terrorizing British nautical site visitors within the Indian Ocean. The French warship races towards the protection of its personal fleet, sporting a stolen treaty that may galvanize India right into a new conflict opposed to the British -- and render for naught all that Sharpe has bravely fought for until now. yet support comes from an unforeseen sector. An outdated good friend, a captain within the Royal army, is at the path of the Revenant, and Sharpe comes aboard a 74-gun man-of-war referred to as Pucelle in scorching pursuit. What effects is a panoramic retelling of 1 of the main ferocious and one-sided sea battles in ecu historical past, during which Nelson -- and Sharpe -- vanquish the mixed naval may perhaps of France and Spain at Trafalgar.

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She was born Grace de Laverre Gould, third daughter of the Earl of Selby. ’ Sharpe could not take his eyes from her ladyship, for she was truly beautiful; breathtakingly, achingly, untouchably beautiful. Her face was pale as ivory, sharpshadowed as she leaned towards her husband, and framed by heavy loops of black hair that were pinned to appear artless, but which even Sharpe could tell must have taken her maid an age to arrange. She did not smile, but just gazed solemnly into her husband’s face.

Facing her on a matching sofa was an elderly man who was talking animatedly in German when Pohlmann entered, but who immediately stood and bowed his head respectfully. Pohlmann seemed surprised to see him and gestured the man to the door. ‘I won’t need you tonight,’ he said in English. ‘Very good, my lord,’ the man, evidently Pohlmann’s servant, answered in the same language, then, with a glance at Sharpe, left the cabin. Pohlmann peremptorily ordered Mathilde to take some air on the poop, then, when she had gone, he poured two large brandies and gave Sharpe a mischievous grin.

Spitting on the deck was strictly forbidden. No passenger was to climb the rigging without permission of a ship’s officer. Passengers in steerage, like Sharpe, were prohibited from entering the great cabin or the roundhouse unless invited. There would be no foul language aboard. ‘Christ all-bloody-mighty,’ a sailor grumbled as he struggled with Sharpe’s barrel of arrack. Two other seamen were carrying his bed and another pair were bringing his chest. ’ one of them asked. ’ The sailor produced a length of hemp rope and showed Sharpe how to secure the wooden chest and the heavy hogshead which virtually filled the small space.

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