Bold, professional and determined, Richard Sharpe embarks on a desperate mission. He must recover the treasure, vital to the success of the war, now hidden behind enemy lines. The gold is in the possession of a powerful guerrilla leader, feared by ally and enemy alike. And he has no love for Sharpe, the man who has stolen his woman. But Sharpe’s fiercest battles lie with the British officers, ignorant of his deadly secret and mistrustful of his ruthless methods.
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'Exciting, exuberant! leaves the reader waiting for the next' Irish Times
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The third of the Sharpe series in the Peninsular, in chronological order.
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Out of all the Sharpe books I would say this isn't one of the best, it's got all the usual Sharpe features but it just lacks that certain something. Still though, it's an awesome book and well worth a read.
In this book Sharpe makes enemies with a powerful guerilla leader, El Catalico. El Catalico is a master swordsman and Sharpe is no match for him with a sword, and in the inevitable battle between these foes, Sharpe must rely upon his means of fighting.
The book is set during August 1810, you get some good education about what happened during that time Anglo-French war. Almeida, a huge fortress under British control is destroyed, you get a very detailed and highly visual description of the explosion that destroyed the fort in the book. The rest is in the book, but the story is great and well, typical Sharpe.
4 Stars
By A. Ross
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In this installment in Cornwell's Napoleonic War series, Sharpe and his riflemen are sent by Lord Wellington on a secret mission to recover a huge cache of Spanish gold deep in French held territory. At this point in the war (August 1810), the British have been driven from Spain, and French armies are marching on Portugal. Meanwhile, the army has run out of money and without the gold, the British will have to abandon Lisbon, and the war. Sharpe's mission introduces him (and the reader) to the uneasy diplomacy between England and Spain, as for the first time, Shape encounters Spanish partisans fighting the French. The partisans currently have the gold, and are loathe to relinquish it to the English troops, whom they don't trust. In each book in the series there is a main villain, here it is the partisan leader, a cruel warlord called "El Catholico." And, in each book in the series there is a beautiful woman, here Teressa, who will play an important and long running role in the series. True to form, she falls into his bed a little too readily, but that's par for the course in the series.
SPOILER WARNING << Read no Further: Plot Twists to Be Revealed! >>
As usual, even once Sharpe successfully extricates the gold and his company from the partisans, and then French forces, he still must battle his greatest foe: army bureaucracy. Holed up in the fortress of Almeida, he is ordered by the garrison commander to relinquish the gold to Spanish representatives. Unwilling to let that happen, he comes up with a rather drastic way to avoid the command--blow up the garrison, thus dissolving the commander's authority! Cornwell bases this on the real explosion of the magazine that destroyed Almeida, but it seems a rather extreme solution, even for the ruthless Sharpe. Pursing his "break a few eggs to make an omlette" plan, Sharpe's explosion ends up killing around 500 British soldiers--rank and file soldiers just like him. He grapples with his remorse momentarily, but it's a monumentally guilt-inducing event that seems not to have caused Sharpe many sleepless nights later in the series (at least the ones I've read so far). Considering Cornwell's has Sharpe's repeatedly recall his whipping in India, and other traumatic events from his past, it seems a slight misstep that the climax of this book doesn't affect him in later ones (although perhaps in working my way through the rest of the series, I'll find myself wrong).
In any event, it's a fairly solid entry in the series.
By Allan
Format:Paperback
I own all the Sharpe books - including Trafalgar.
Sharpe's Gold is right up there with the best of the series. It's a rollicking Boy's Own yarn, a swasher of buckles, a putter-downer of foes, a sweeper-away of tempestuous heroines. It's fun, and makes no pretence to be otherwise.
Bernard Cornwell rarely writes badly (I disliked his Starbuck / Civil War stories, but that's me) and he doesn't let his fans down with this book.
Wellington's army is backed into a corner, and broke. The Spaniards have a lot of gold, and Sharpe's just the man to steal - er, appropriate it. That he has to blow up a city to do it is just another day in this larger-than-life, ultimately pragmatic soldier's life.
And yes - there's a great love story, too.
If, in reality, Wellington had had a Sharpe or two under his command, Napoleon would have gone back to Corsica to study pre-revolutionary tatting. Fortunately, he didn't... which means there are plenty of more opportunities for Sharpe to battle his way across Spain and into France.
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