Sharpe's Devil: Napoleon and South America, 1820-1821Harper Collins, 2009 M10 13 - 336 páginas From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, another exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe’s peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands – a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth. Sharpe, along with Patrick Harper, find themselves bound for Chile via St. Helena, where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse, neither man can imagine that dangers that await them in Chile… |
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... mister and a farmer . Sharpe turned away from the embarrassed Lieutenant to stare morosely across the sun - glinting sea at the far ships that guarded this lonely , godforsaken coast . Sharpe's scar gave him a sardonic and mocking look ...
... Mister Patrick Harper and was Sharpe's companion on this voyage , had expressed the exact same sentiment at dawn when , as their ship crept on a small wind to the island's anchorage , the first light had revealed the unappealing ...
... Sharpe , suddenly dry - mouthed and horribly nervous , found his tongue . " I am a passenger on the Espiritu Santo , Your Majesty . Traveling to Chile with my friend from Ireland , Mister Patrick Harper . ' The Emperor smiled . " Your ...
... Sharpe and Harper , soaked to the skin , reached the quayside in Jamestown where the Espiritu Santo's longboats waited to take the passengers back to Ardi- les's ship . At the quayside a British officer waited in the rain . " Mister Sharpe ...
... Mister Sharpe ? " she had said after a few awkward seconds , and sud- denly Sharpe had recognized her , but even then he had found it hard to reconcile this woman's reserved and stately appearance with his memories of an adventurous ...
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Sección 9 | 215 |
Sección 10 | 239 |
Sección 11 | 262 |
Sección 12 | 285 |
Sección 13 | 313 |
Sección 14 | 321 |
Sección 15 | 325 |