At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British Empire stretched from the English Channel to the Indian Ocean. One of the builders of this empire, a participant in all the wars that England waged at that time, was Shooter Sharp. In the novel “Shooter Sharpe’s Tiger,” the hero participates in the siege of Seringapatam, the citadel in which Sultan Tipu, nicknamed the Tiger of Mysore, settled. Many trials will fall on the share of a former London street child who joined the army to escape the hangman's noose. And his fate will be tightly intertwined with the fate of the Duke of Wellington, the future winner of Napoleon at Waterloo. The first novel in the series “The Adventures of Richard Sharpe.”