num_pages: 320
description: Sharpe's mission has seemed simple: 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 choices: 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, #18)
characters: Patrick Harper, William Frederickson, Jane Gibbons, Cornelius Killick, Richard Sharpe, Pierre Ducos, Horace Bampfylde
genres: Fiction, Historical, Action, War, France, Adventure, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 8167
places: Bordeaux
series: Richard Sharpe, Sharpe
publisher: Harper Collins Publishers