Sharpe’s Prey The fifth book in the Sharpe

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Sharpe's Prey Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen 1807 (The fifth book in the Sharpe series) Bestselling novelist Bernard Cornwell returns to his popular Richard Sharpe series with this eighteenth dazzling installment which finds his beloved hero in the heart of war-torn Denmark trying to protect the prized Danish fleet from Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions. The year is 1807 and Richard Sharpe is back in England where his career seems to have come to a dead end. Loveless destitute and relegated to the menial tasks of quartermaster Sharpe roams the streets of London pondering a bleak future away from the army. Then out of the blue an old friend invites him to undertake a secret mission -- the delivery of a bribe -- to the Danish capital Copenhagen. Denmark is officially neutral but Napoleon is threatening an invasion in order to capture the powerful Danish fleet which could replace the ships France lost in its disastrous defeat at Trafalgar. The British fearing such enhancement of French power threaten their own preemptive invasion and Sharpe whose errand seemed so simple is trapped in a web of treachery that will end only when the city which thought itself safe is subjected to a brutal and merciless bombardment. Sharpe's Prey - the chronological sequel to Sharpe's Trafalgar - finds Bernard Cornwell at the top of his bestselling form combining the meticulous historical detail and fantastic battle scenes he's famous for with a plot that races at breakneck speed toward the final bloody battle that threatens to destroy Copenhagen.