Sharpe's Tiger

Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1)

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Sharpe's Tiger

Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799 (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #1)

  • 4.14 ·
  • 7 Ratings
  • 54 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 11 Have read

In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless Indian dictator backed by fearsome French troops.The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive out his French allies. To penetrate the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn him over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners — or, worse — his man-eating tigers. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. And when the furious British assault on the city finally begins, Sharpe must take up arms against his true comrades to preserve his false identity, risking death at their hands in order to avoid detection and thus to foil the Tippoo's well-set trap.

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Sharpe's Tiger
2010, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Publishers
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Sharpe's Tiger
2005, HarperTorch
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La sfida della tigre: romanzo
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Sharpe's Tiger
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Sharpe's tiger
1997, HARPER COLLINS
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"It was funny, Richard Sharpe thought, that there were no vultures in England."

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Series
Sharpe's Adventures (1)

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Open Library
OL7599642M
ISBN 10
0613370430
ISBN 13
9780613370431
Library Thing
6765

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It was funny, Richard Sharpe thought, that there were no vultures in England.
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