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Sharpe’s Assassin

By: Bernard Cornwell
Narrated by: Rupert Farley
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Sharpe is back.

The global best seller Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero, Richard Sharpe.

If any man can do the impossible, it's Richard Sharpe....

Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army 21 years ago, and it’s been his home ever since. He’s a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon.

So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another. Napoleon's army may be defeated, but another enemy lies waiting in the shadows—a secretive group of fanatical revolutionaries hell-bent on revenge.

Sharpe is dispatched to a new battleground: the maze of Paris streets where lines blur between friend and foe. And in search of a spy, he will have to defeat a lethal assassin determined to kill his target or die trying....

©2021 Bernard Cornwell (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Action & Adventure Historical Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thriller & Suspense Assassin Solider Fiction War Mystery
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It’s been too long since the last Sharpe novel (although given Bernard Cornwell’s other series you can seen why), so it gave me great joy to immerse in this post-Waterloo, pre-Sharpe’s Devil story. Action packed and well read. A winner.

Cornwell still the master

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Cornwell is a master of his craft and Rupert Farley is the perfect narrator.

Another rollicking Sharpe episode

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Another worthy outing for Sharpe. It's not the best in the series but is worth another outing and the characters exist effortlessly now almost writing their own stories.

Another worthy outing

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I've been reading Bernard Cornwell's books for over 35 years and have read most of them, so I jumped at the chance to hear a new installment in the Sharpe Series. As its over 20 years since the prequel to this book was written I went back and listened to that before this book so I'd refresh my memory of what had immediately happened prior to this story. I really enjoyed Sharpe's Waterloo (the prequel) and headed straight onto Sharpe's Assassin with much anticipation. Well I needn't have bothered. This book is well below the author's usual standard, full of cliches and constant repetition of things we already know. It got so bad that I was wishing for the book to end. If I could give it no stars I would.

Well below par

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This is a great series but this is a poor story. . Every cringe worthy cliche that could be glanced over in the previous series has been loaded, shot and hammered home again. Only the battle sequence at the end, of which Mr Cornwall can rightly claim to be a master, saves this episode. Don't listen to this first or you'll miss a lot of compelling listening.

A sad end...

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