num_pages: 319
description: Sharpe's mission has seemed capture a small unguarded French coastal fort, cripple Napoleon's supply lines, and retreat across the sea. But behind the lines, Sharpe's old enemy, Pierre Ducos, awaits Sharpe's arrival with a battalion of French soldiers and a vicious commanding general who keeps the scalps of his dead enemies as trophies.Outmaneuvered by Ducos's treachery and abandoned by his own navy, Sharpe has only two to escape with the aid of the charming, unscrupulous American mercenary, Cornelius Killick, or die.
language: English
title: Sharpe's Siege
titlecomplete: Sharpe's Siege (Sharpe, #19)
characters: Horace Bampfylde, Pierre Ducos, William Frederickson, Jane Gibbons, Cornelius Killick, Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, France, Action, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Military Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 8166
places: Bordeaux
series: Sharpe, Richard Sharpe
publisher: Penguin