Newly promoted‚ Major Richard Sharpe leads his small force into the biting cold of the winter mountains. His task is to rescue a group of well−born women held hostage by a rabble of deserters. And one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill‚ Sharpe′s most implacable enemy.
But the rescue is the least of Sharpe′s problems. He must face a far greater threat. With only the support of his own company and the new Rocket Troop − the last word in military incompetence − to back his gamble‚ Sharpe cannot afford even to recognize the prospect of defeat. For to surrender − or to fail − would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies...
The Complete Sharpe Collection
ISBN: 9780007276257; ISBN10: 0007276257; Imprint: ; On Sale: 1/02/2009; Format: Paperback; Trimsize: 195 x 130 x 22 mm; Pages: 352; $24.99;