SHARPE'S PREY+SIGNED+FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINT++

BERNARD CORNWELL (SIGNED)

ISBN 10: 0002258757 / ISBN 13: 9780002258753

Published by HARPER COLLINS, LONDON, UK, 2001

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A NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT UK FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINT COPY OF SHARPE'S PREY BY BERNARD CORNWELL WHICH BERNARD HAS VERY KINDLY SIGNED TO THE TITLE PAGE. THIS BOOK IS IN A PROTECTIVE CLEAR ACETATE COVER, ALL BOOKS DESPATCHED WRAPPED IN BUBBLE WRAP AND A STRONG CARDBOARD BOX.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SHARPE'S PREY+SIGNED+FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINT++
• Publisher: HARPER COLLINS, LONDON, UK
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002258757
• ISBN 13: 9780002258753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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1st edition vg++ hardcover book & vg++ dw (dust jacket),

From the Back Cover

Bestselling novelist Bernard Cornwell returns to his popular Richard Sharpe series with this eighteenth dazzling installment, which finds his beloved hero in the heart of war-torn Denmark, trying to protect the prized Danish fleet from Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions.

The year is 1807, and Richard Sharpe is back in England, where his career seems to have come to a dead end. Loveless, destitute, and relegated to the menial tasks of quartermaster, Sharpe roams the streets of London, pondering a bleak future away from the army. Then, out of the blue, an old friend invites him to undertake a secret mission -- the delivery of a bribe -- to the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Denmark is officially neutral, but Napoleon is threatening an invasion in order to capture the powerful Danish fleet, which could replace the ships France lost in its disastrous defeat at Trafalgar. The British, fearing such enhancement of French power, threaten their own preemptive invasion, and Sharpe, whose errand seemed so simple, is trapped in a web of treachery that will end only when the city, which thought itself safe, is subjected to a brutal and merciless bombardment.

Sharpe's Prey -- the chronological sequel to Sharpe's Trafalgar -- finds Bernard Cornwell at the top of his bestselling form, combining the meticulous historical detail and fantastic battle scenes he's famous for with a plot that races at breakneck speed toward the final, bloody battle that threatens to destroy Copenhagen.