The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca campaign is not the French army, but Colonel Leroux, who has been ruthlessly assassinating Britain's most valuable spies. After surviving one attempt on his life by this master killer, Captain Richard Sharpe is charged with stopping his personal nemesis. Thrust into the unfamiliar world of political and military intrigue, Sharpe tangles with the beautiful La Marquesa, who leads him through a maze of...

Working as a spy during the Peninsular Wars, Jeanne, the widowed daughter of a royalist emigre, rediscovers her love for a British captain she was forbidden to marry years earlier.