« Sharpe's Command » Bernard Cornwell

If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe …

And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he’s dispatched on an undercover mission behind enemy lines, deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the centre of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north and one in the south; if they meet, the British are doomed.

Only Sharpe’s small group of men — with their cunning and courage to rely on — stand in their way. But they’re rapidly outnumbered, enemies are hiding in plain sight, and time is running out …