Аннотация
BERNARD CORNWELL
Sharpe’s Sword
For Peggy Blackburn, with love
“A knight errant — to cut a long story short — is beaten up one day and made Emperor the next.”
Don Quixoteby Miguel Cervantes (1547–1615)Translated by J. M. CohenPART ONE
Sunday, June 14 to Tuesday, June 23rd, 1812
PROLOGUE
The tall man on horseback was a killer.
He was strong, healthy, and ruthless. Some men thought he was young to be a full Colonel in Napoleon’s Imperial Guard, but no-one took advantage of his youth. A single glimpse of his curiously pale eyes, pale-lashed eyes, eyes that gave his strong, handsome face a chill of death, was enough to make men offer respect to Colonel Leroux.
Leroux was the Emperor’s man. He went where Napoleon sent him and he performed his master’s tasks with skill and pitiless efficiency. Now he was in Spain, sent there by the Emperor himself, and Colonel Leroux had just made a mistake. He knew it, he cursed himself for it,...

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