SHARPE'S ESCAPE Bernard Cornwell, . . HarperCollins, $25.95 ... Portuguese captain Vicente, and a young English governess come to Sharpe's rescue just in time for Sharpe to save his battalion, ...

BERNARD CORNWELL’S 19 novels about Richard Sharpe, an infantry officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, have been popular in Britain and Canada. The last one, “Sharpe’s Havoc ...