Andrew Taylor

Fiction’s most famous Rifleman returns — and it’s miraculous he’s still alive

Sharpe’s Assassin sees our hero despatched to Paris in the aftermath of Waterloo to take on the crack battalion known as Napoleon’s ‘devils’

‘A Rifleman at Musketry Practice’ by John Augustus Atkinson. [Alamy] 
issue 09 October 2021
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    Harper Collins, pp. 400, £20

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