Leo T. reviewed on 9/15/2016 + 1775 more book reviews

The book begins with a good map of Copenhagen. I extended my service at Nelligen, W. Germany but chose to travel on leave to Vienna and so missed Denmark, thus the map is helpful. The story starts with an exercise in sword fighting in a London 'gymnasium' of sorts but Sharpe is not a participant. He is down and out, separated somehow from his Lady, has not found his footing in his new regiment, and bereft of his fortune in jewels (due to lawyers--I predict that somehow they are being held while the fate of the Indiaman is adjudicated and imagine that the dishonest EIC Captain spilled the beans that Sharpe had gotten them back in order to save his own neck). Sharpe is apparently going to get some revenge (and ready cash) from the master of the parish workhouse that did him (and others) so wrong. I am only partway through Chapter 2 so this promises to be a well written tale to read on the bus and subway, as have been the previous three books in this series by Cornwell.
Well, I wasn't entirely right on my suppositions, but I did enjoy the book and left it at the VA Hospital for others to read.

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