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Sharpe's Tiger

  • 4.14 ·
  • 7 Ratings
  • 53 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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Cover of: La sfida della tigre
La sfida della tigre: romanzo
2002, Editori associati
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Sharpe's Tiger
July 1999, Harper Paperbacks
Cover of: Sharpe's tiger
Cover of: Sharpe's tiger
Sharpe's tiger
1997, HARPER COLLINS
Cover of: Sharpe's tiger : Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799

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PR6053.O75 S554 1997

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OL25936030M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780061012693
ISBN 10
0061012696

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