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The recommended twenty first book in the main best-selling collection featuring Rich Sharpe.In the wintertime of 1811, the battle appears misplaced. All Spain has fallen to the French, aside from Cadiz, today the Spanish money and alone under siege.In Cadiz, Richard Sharpe finds several adversary. One of these, a baleful priest, discovers a tool to split the British coalition and Sharpe should discover methods to defeat him in a menacing battle of blade and treachery at nighttime alleys of the city.As a little British force is caught by way of a French military, their only hope lies with the outnumbered redcoats who, on the slope next to the ocean, won't acknowledge defeat. And there, in the horror of Barrosa, Sharpe discovers his old adversary Colonel Vandal once more.