Bernard Cornwell · 1989 · exile

Bernard Cornwell's novel of the peace of 1814. Wellington fights one more battle at Toulouse for a war that has already ended, and Sharpe is then arrested for stealing Napoleon's treasury on the word of the man who actually took it. Cleared but ruined, robbed by his own wife, he goes after Ducos across France and into Italy.

1. 1
   Toulouse

   The last battle of the Peninsular War is fought at Toulouse against an army whose emperor has already abdicated - several thousand casualties for a war that ended a week earlier and nobody had been told.

2. 2
   Bordeaux

   Waiting at Bordeaux for a ship home, Sharpe learns that his wife has emptied his bank account - and is then arrested for the theft of Napoleon's treasure on a sworn statement by Pierre Ducos, who stole it himself.

3. 3
   Naples

   The trail runs to Naples, where Ducos is living as a Polish count under the protection of a cardinal - and Sharpe takes the villa in company with a French general who has rather more reason than he does to want the man.