Franco-Spanish Border, 1813
Major Richard Sharpe, his latest mission to protect the identity of the master spy, El Mirador. Sharpe
captures Colonel Leroux who has been sent by Napoleon to assassinate El Mirador but Leroux escapes. In an
ensuing battle, Sharpe's sword is destroyed and he is left for dead. He is lovingly nursed back to health
by a beautiful young girl who has been rendered mute after witnessing the slaughter of her companions.
Armed with a new sword forged by the faithful Sergeant Harper, Sharpe continues his mission to protect the
life of El Mirador and seek retribution. In which Sharpe carries his sword (a 1796 pattern Heavy Cavalry
sword, an ill-balanced butcher's blade) to the extraordinary battle outside Salamanca where, to quote an
enemy General, Wellington 'destroyed forty thousand Frenchmen in forty minutes'. Sharpe also has to contend
with the Marquesa de Casares el Grande y Melida Sadaba (a bit of all right), a British spymaster and, at
the very end, some unbroken French squares.

About The Reader
William Gaminara is a British actor and screenwriter, best known for playing pathologist Dr Leo Dalton in
the BBC's Silent Witness (2002 to date). His other television roles have included Will Newman in Attachments
and Dr Andrew Bower in Casualty. Gaminara voiced Dr Richard Locke in the long-running radio soap opera,
sThe Archers. He has also narrated numerous audiobooks, including several Sharpe novels.

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