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Sharpe's Fortress [181-011-4.2]

By: Bernard Cornwell

Category: fiction historical

Synopsis:

It is December, 1803, and Richard Sharpe is now an officer in Sir
Arthur Wellesley's army that is seeking to end the Mahratta War.
Sharpe, just risen from the ranks, discovers that his fellow-officials
are not welcoming.

Unsure of his authority and uncomfortable in the mess, he is failing,
and his failure seems assured When he is relegated to a tedious jop in
the baggage train.

There Sharpe discovers a treason has been conjured up by his oldest and
worst enemy, Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, but in uncovering this Sharpe
finds himself alone and under dreadful threat. He falls back on his
fighting ability to regain his confidence and his treasure, the jewels
of the Tippoo Sultan, which have been stolen from him.

The search for revenge on the men who robbed him takes him to
Gawilghur, the fortress in the sky, the last refuge of a desperate
enemy. Gawilghur has never fallen to assault, and bolstering its de
fences is the renegade Englishman, William Dodd, who escaped from
Sharpe in Sharpe's Triumph. The fortress, poised high above the
Deccan Plain, seems impregnable, and contains a trap for its attackers.
Dodd is confident that no redcoat can reach him, but Sharpe is
desperate and so he joins Wellesley's troops as they surge across the
neck of land that leads to the breaches. There, in the horror of
Gawilghur's ravine, dominated by walls and guns, he will fight as he
has never fought before.

Sharpe's Fortress completes the story of Sharpe in India, following
Ensign Sharpe from the heat-baked battle of Argaum to the carnage at
Gawilghur. It is a stunning successor to Sharpe's Tiger and Sharpe's
Triumph, and leaves Richard Sharp poised to return to Europe apd to
new, even more lethal, enemies.


By the same author The Sharpe novels (in chronological order)

SHARPE'S TIGER

Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Senngapatam, 1799

SHARPE'S RIFLES