Captain Richard Sharpe, along with his company of redcoats and riflemen, must save Portugal from the invading French in this action-packed, rip-roaring entry in Cornwell\'s New York Times bestselling adventure series.
It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die..
Sharpe\'s Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena\'s crack troops.
Discarded by his regiment, Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus - a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal\'s ancient university city.
Sharpe\'s job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus.
From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty\'s Army at the siege of Seringapatam.
Captain Richard Sharpe, along with his company of redcoats and riflemen, must save Portugal from the invading French in this action-packed, rip-roaring entry in Cornwell\'s New York Times bestselling adventure series
