

Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington's war.
Richard Sharpe

Patrick Harper

Jane Gibbons

Sir Henry Simmerson

Lady Anne Camoynes

Major General Ross

Rifleman Daniel Hagman

Lord Fenner

The Prince Regent

Horatio Havercamp

Rossendale

Captain Carline

Sir Barstan Maxwell
