Sharpe’s Devil: Napoleon and South America, 1820–1821. Bernard Cornwell

Чтение книги онлайн.

      Copyright

      This novel is a work of fiction. The incidents and some of the characters portrayed in it, while based on real historical events and figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1992

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 1992

      Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks

      HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication

      Source ISBN: 9780007235179

      Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2010 ISBN: 9780007334544

      Version: 2017-05-06

      Sharpe’s Devil is for Toby and Isabel Eady

      ‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures’

       Sunday Telegraph

      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Map

       Prologue

       Part One: Bautista

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Part Two: Cochrane

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Part Three: Vivar

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Epilogue

       Historical Note

       Sharpe’s Story

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

       The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)

       The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       About the Publisher

      PROLOGUE

      There were sixteen men and only twelve mules. None of the men was willing to abandon the journey, so tempers were edgy and not made any better by the day’s oppressive and steamy heat. The sixteen men were waiting by the shore, where the black basalt cliffs edged the small port and where there was no wind to relieve the humidity. Somewhere in the hills there sounded a grumble of thunder.

      All but one of the sixteen men were uniformed. They stood СКАЧАТЬ