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A review by usbsticky
Sharpe's Assassin by Bernard Cornwell
5.0
Spoilers ahead.
The order is wrong on this list. This isn't the last one chronologically, it should go before Sharpe's Devil. This book is immediately after Sharpe's Waterloo when Napoleon loses Waterloo and the Allies advance on Paris. The Allies eventually take Paris but Sharpe is sent on ahead on special service.
There are several special services, which he performs, first with the Light Company and later on with the entire South Essex battalion. First he goes to the town of Ham to rescue a Mr. Fox. Mr. Fox is a low key spy with two tasks. One (historically correct) is that he has to go to the Louvre (Musee Napoleon) to take inventory of all the looted artworks and then send them back to their rightful owners. And two is to find and eliminate the Fraternité, a group of die-hard Bonapartists whose aim is to assassinate Wellington and the French King Louis amongst others.
The writing flows easily and is easy to read, that's vintage Cornwall. There are many aspects to the Sharpe novels. One is that most of them are based on historical events and often Cornwell does a great job giving us a boots on the ground Sharpe perspective of them together with a bit of his own viewpoint (disguised as that of a character's.)
Cornwell as a writer has gotten better and better. His later novels often include humor, sometimes poetry and other elements missing from his earlier novels.
I feel sad that this is the last Sharpe novel and I hope he will continue and add more to the series.
The order is wrong on this list. This isn't the last one chronologically, it should go before Sharpe's Devil. This book is immediately after Sharpe's Waterloo when Napoleon loses Waterloo and the Allies advance on Paris. The Allies eventually take Paris but Sharpe is sent on ahead on special service.
There are several special services, which he performs, first with the Light Company and later on with the entire South Essex battalion. First he goes to the town of Ham to rescue a Mr. Fox. Mr. Fox is a low key spy with two tasks. One (historically correct) is that he has to go to the Louvre (Musee Napoleon) to take inventory of all the looted artworks and then send them back to their rightful owners. And two is to find and eliminate the Fraternité, a group of die-hard Bonapartists whose aim is to assassinate Wellington and the French King Louis amongst others.
The writing flows easily and is easy to read, that's vintage Cornwall. There are many aspects to the Sharpe novels. One is that most of them are based on historical events and often Cornwell does a great job giving us a boots on the ground Sharpe perspective of them together with a bit of his own viewpoint (disguised as that of a character's.)
Cornwell as a writer has gotten better and better. His later novels often include humor, sometimes poetry and other elements missing from his earlier novels.
I feel sad that this is the last Sharpe novel and I hope he will continue and add more to the series.