Sharpe's Company

It is a hard winter. For Richard Sharpe it is the worst he can remamber. he has lost his command to a man who could buy the promotion Sharpe covets. His oldest enemy, the ruthless, indestructable Hakeswill, joins the regiment and he is a man with a mission to ruin Sharpe.

But Sharpe is determined to change his luck. The only way - a desperate choice - is to volunteer for the Forlorn Hope, to lead the attack on the impregnable fortress town of Badajoz, a road to almost certain death or, just possibly, the heroic glory.