Bernard Cornwell · 2021 · thriller

Bernard Cornwell's 2021 novel, picking up the day after Waterloo. Wellington's army marches on Paris, and Sharpe is sent ahead to take a fortress and then into the occupied capital - because a group of Bonapartists intends to murder the allied leaders, and somebody has to find them in a city that has just changed sides again.

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   Waterloo

   The morning after the battle, with the ridge covered in dead and the looters already at work, Sharpe is given a battalion of misfits and told to go forward - because the war is not over merely because Napoleon has lost.

2. 2
   Cambrai

   The advance into France runs through fortress towns that have not surrendered, and Cambrai has to be taken by escalade in the dark - a small, brutal action of the kind that does not appear in histories of the campaign.

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   Paris

   In an occupied Paris of returned royalists, unemployed soldiers and settling scores, Sharpe hunts a conspiracy to kill the allied commanders - in a city where nobody will admit what they were doing a month ago.