Sharpe · Book 24

Sharpe's Assassin

by Bernard Cornwell

Published
30 September 2021
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780008484545
Type
novel

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About this book

Sharpe's Assassin, published in 2021 at 400 pages, is the first of three late additions -- with Sharpe's Command and Sharpe's Storm -- that Cornwell wrote between 2021 and 2025 to finally close the gaps at the end of Richard Sharpe's career, decades after the original novels.

Its place in Sharpe

Sharpe's Assassin is book 24 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Fury. It is followed by Sharpe's Command. See the full Sharpe reading order.

Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels follow Richard Sharpe, a foundling raised in a London workhouse who enlists as a private soldier and — against every rule of the Georgian army — is commissioned into the officer ranks after saving the Duke of Wellington's life in India. From the storming of Seringapatam to the retreat to Corunna, the breaches of Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo, the charge at Salamanca, and finally the field of Waterloo itself, Sharpe fights his way across two decades of the Napoleonic Wars with a…

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