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    Sharpe's Devil

    Written by Bernard Cornwell

    Narrated by Frederick Davidson

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    In 1820, Richard Sharpe is drawn out of retirement to find the Captain-General of the Spanish colony of Chile, an old friend, who vanished without a trace half a world away. But in Chile, fortune delivers Sharpe into the hands of a legendary rebel genius.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlackstone Audio
    Release dateJun 25, 2005
    ISBN9781433269608
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    Sharpe's Devil
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    Bernard Cornwell

    BERNARD CORNWELL is the author of over fifty novels, including the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales, which serve as the basis for the hit Netflix series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.

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    • 4/5
      After Napoleon has been defeated and Sharpe has retired, Richard Sharpe agrees to go find the missing Don Blas Vivar. He is accompanied by Patrick Harper. They get to meet the exiled Napoleon, than travel to Chile. In Chile he is drawn into Lord Cochrane's capture of Valdivia. I learned a lot about the Chilean War of Independence.
    • 5/5
      This is a fast-moving, well paced story. Though it is abridged, it still keeps the flavor of the original stories. It is set after Waterloo, which is after the original Sharpe books, but the author provides enough background information so it can be enjoyed by those who haven't read the other books. Sean Bean narrates, and nobody voices Sharpe better than the man who plays him on TV. Recommended for fans of the original series, Chilean history (the story is set in Chile) or historical fiction.
    • 4/5
      Very much felt like a last book, a little sad.
    • 5/5
      No. 21, the final installment of the Richard Sharpe series.Normally, when a series reaches a planned climax (in this case, the Battle of Waterloo), any books that come after are usually anticlimactic and have nowhere near the story-telling tension. Cornwell, however, true to form, spins a fascinating adventure tale of 5 years after the end of the Napoleonic Wars.It’s 1820, Napoleon is now “in exile” on St. Helena, and Sharpe, since the end of the war, has been living with Lucille on her farm in France. They receive an unexpected visitor from Sharpe’s past in Spain—Louise Parker, now the wife of one of Sharpe’s Spanish comrades and friend, Don Blas Vivar, the Count of Matamorto, who is missing in Chile. Don Blas had been sent there as governor to put down the rebels who were fighting for Chile’s independence from Spain; he disappeared shortly after.Frustrated by what she sees as a lack of cooperation on the part of the Spanish authorities in locating Don Blas, she presses Sharpe to search for him in Chile, cost no object and with a nice, hefty fee for Sharpe. Reluctantly, believing that Don Blas is dead, Sharpe agrees. The money certainly would be useful for badly-needed repairs on the farm. And Don Blas is a friend.Naturally, wherever Sharpe goes, there goes ex-Sgt. Patrick Harper. The two set off in a Spanish warship, the Espiritu Santo. The Espiritu Santu is headed towards Chile in hopes of fighting the admiral of the rebel fleet, the famous English naval captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. But on their way to Chile, they stop off, as many did, at the island of St. Helena, there to have a somewhat uncommon and puzzling interview with Napoleon himself, who asks Sharpe to carry a framed picture of himself as a memento to an admirer in Chile, an English officer. Captivated by Napoleon despite himself, Sharpe agrees.Upon landing in Chile, Sharpe and Harper set off in what appears to be a dead-end quest for Don Blas—if not to find him living, then to bring his body back to Spain for burial and for closure for his wife.That is the background for this remarkably good tale. What makes this book even more intriguing is that the naval adventures of Lord Cochrane in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars formed much of the basis of the early books of the highly successful, naval mirror image of Cornwell’s series, the Aubrey-Maturin series written by Patrick O’Brian; Jack Aubrey’s exploits were based directly on Cochrane’s. In fact, the last book of O’Brian’s series more or less covers the same events. However, in the Aubrey-Maturin series, Aubrey again takes Cochrane’s role in a very fictionalized version of events; Cornwell sticks to history.It’s a glorious finale to a brilliant series. Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      This meant to be the terminal Sharpe. An interesting experience, with appearances by Cochrane, the British Adventurer/Admiral, and Napoleon. We get to go to Chile during the wars of liberation, and a piece of high level skullduggery is carried out. readable.