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Title: Written For 14 Year Old Boys From 50 Years Ago
Review: I expected to find solid adult historical-fiction from the early period of the Napoleonic Wars. Instead I got simplistic adventures, stock characters and a dopey narrative full of spies and Tigers and prison escapes and implausible derring-do. This reminds me of the old Flashman series of books that I thought was so clever when I was a kid. But those were satire. Unless Sharpe's Tiger is meant to be Young Reader fiction or is a tongue-in-cheek satire I have to assume that the author is an overrated hack who can write decent dialog but is totally clueless when it comes to plot or character.
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