351 pages
English language
Published May 18, 1984 by Viking Press.
4 stars
(1 review)
A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French women hostage on a strategic mountain pass. Outnumbered and attacked from two sides, Sharpe must hold his ground or die in the attempt.
Subjects
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction
- Sharpe, Richard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History, Military -- 19th century -- Fiction