At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British Empire stretched from the English Channel to the Indian Ocean. One of the soldiers, the builders of the empire, a man who participated in all the wars that England fought at that time, was Rifleman Sharp. In the novel “Shooter Sharpe’s Company,” the hero, who was most humiliatingly deprived of his captain’s rank, tries to get into the “Desperate Hope” detachment suicide bomber, who will have to storm the breach made in the fortress wall. But even this Sharpe is denied, and what’s more, his mortal enemy, the notorious scoundrel Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill, arrives in the company that he no longer commands. The thirteenth novel in the series “The Adventures of Richard Sharpe.” For the first time in Russian!