num_pages: 320
description: New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns with his iconic hero Richard Sharpe.SHARPE IS BACK.Outsider.Hero.Rogue.And the one man you want on your side.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 twenty-one years ago and its been his home ever since. Hes 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 . . .
language: English
title: Sharpe's Assassin
publisher: Harper