Joining the Sultan's army, they discover that the Sultan has set a trap for the invading British by mining the weakest (and thus most inviting) portion of Seringapatam's walls.īefore Sharpe and Lawford can discover a way to transmit a warning to the British, they are betrayed by Sergeant Hakeswill. Although Lawford is nominally in command, Sharpe quickly dominates the lieutenant by force of personality and, without authorization, brings Mary on the mission. Lawford and Sharpe pose as deserters to rescue Colonel Hector McCandless, chief of the British East India Company's intelligence service. But Sharpe is rescued by Lieutenant William Lawford after 202 lashes are inflicted, in order to effect a rescue mission behind the Sultan's lines.
His sadistic company sergeant, Obadiah Hakeswill, deliberately provokes Sharpe into attacking him, and engineers the virtual death sentence of 2,000 lashes for the private. Sharpe is contemplating desertion with his paramour, widow Mary Bickerstaff. The story opens with Richard Sharpe serving as a private with the British army, then invading Mysore and advancing on the Tippoo Sultan's capital city of Seringapatam. It takes place in Mysore, India and tells of Sharpe's adventures and triumphs against the Tipu Sultan during the Siege of Seringapatam. The first (chronologically) of the Richard Sharpe series, and of the Sharpe India trilogy, by the English author Bernard Cornwell. This is Cornwell's device to find prequel material for his hero. 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.Sharpe's Tiger is Bernard Cornwell's return to the Richard Sharpe series of novels, set during his early years in India.
Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn him over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners - or, worse - his man-eating tigers. To penetrate the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. 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.
The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. 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.
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