The French are on the run in Spain. In a last ditch effort to hold onto Spain for Napoleon, Major Ducos engineers a diplomatic incident to split the English-Spanish alliance. Sharpe is at the centre of this incident, accused of impropriety with a Spanish nobleman's wife. Sharpe's life and honour are at stake.
A pretty good episode of Sharpe. Some good intrigue, twists and turns and Machiavellian machinations and some good action scenes. With Obadiah Hakeswill gone Major Ducos is the villain of the piece and a formidable one he is, engineering it so that Sharpe is an enemy of Wellington and the British Army.
Not as good as previous episodes though. Some of the action scenes are quite unrealistic and gung ho and (par for the Sharpe course) some plot developments are clumsy.
Still, it's a rollicking adventure.
A pretty good episode of Sharpe. Some good intrigue, twists and turns and Machiavellian machinations and some good action scenes. With Obadiah Hakeswill gone Major Ducos is the villain of the piece and a formidable one he is, engineering it so that Sharpe is an enemy of Wellington and the British Army.
Not as good as previous episodes though. Some of the action scenes are quite unrealistic and gung ho and (par for the Sharpe course) some plot developments are clumsy.
Still, it's a rollicking adventure.