Sharpe's Havoc

The Northern Portugal Campaign, Spring 1809

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Rupert Farley

Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times Bestselling Author

Newly Reissued

Richard Sharpe returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula, where he and his men bravely fight the French invasion into Portugal in 1809. The world-renowned Sharpe series is now available with gorgeous packaging for a new generation of readers and listeners.

A few years after Richard Sharpe’s heroic exploits on the battlefields of Trafalgar, Sharpe finds himself once again in Portugal, fighting the savage armies of Napoleon Bonaparte, as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula under their control. Travelling with a small British contingent, Sharpe is on the lookout for Kate Savage, the daughter of an English wine shipper, who has gone missing a few months before. But just as he follows the first leads to the missing girl, the French onslaught on Portugal begins and the city of Oporto becomes a bloody scene of carnage and disaster as it falls into the hands of the enemy.

©2003 Bernard Cornwell (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Great as usual

Moving thru the series and this one does not disappoint! On to the next in the series

Great book, best actor on audible

I really enjoyed this one, and again this voice actor is just unbelievably good. I wish he would go back and do the other sharpe novels that he did not narrate.

Another great Sharpe Adventure

We’ve really enjoyed the “newer” Sharpe stories which begin in India and include many more details than the original books. Our first exposure to Sharpe was through the Sean Bean TV adaptations which bear surprisingly little similarity to the books. We also love the Farley narrations.

Great book; No Historical notes.

Would have liked the "Historical Notes" of the print version included, but not so much that I'll ding it a point.

Great Book and Best Narrator

This is one of the Sharpe novels that's written after Sharpe's Waterloo, but great book nonetheless. Only one noticeable continuity error concerning Sharpe meeting Daddy Hill in this before Sharpe's Rifles. Rupert Farley is a great Narrator, and got Sharpe's and Harper's voices to sound like Sean Bean's and Daragh O'Malley, respectively.

Still great

This is my second time through the sharpe series. Even better than I remembered. Wonderful escapist entertainment.

More Sharpe

Another excellent installment of Cornwell's Sharpe series covering the Northern Portugal campaign. As usual, the performance by Rupert Farley is spot on, with a very pleasant narrative that is ready to understand and to listen to.

Narration

Much better interpretation by this narrator than the last. More familiar along with the numerous others he has done for this series.

Can’t Stand Reader Farley

The story is fine. Not great but it’s ok. I can NOT stand the voices of Rupert Farley. His voice for Sharpe is exceedingly repulsive. It almost more than I can take. It IS more than I can take. I stop and listen to a Sharpe story read by Frederick Davidson to calm down. I am sad Davidson died and crushed by his loss of his voice in his remaining months. Hey, Audible, is Farley the best you can scrape up! Whether Farley is reading characters the reader is to like or despise, the voices he picks are unlikeable. The reader ends up not liking to listen to any character. Patrick Harper is the only character the reader semi enjoys hearing talk. I don’t like Wellington’s voice but I do when Davidson narrates. And when Farley has Sharpe call Wellington ‘ the Duke’ , you’d swear a bootlegger from the probation 1920s is speaking. Painfully horrible. At least he’s consistent. The worst reader ever. Test him against Frederick Davidson. Pick a Sharpe book. Pick ANY story read by Davidson. Pure joy. Try PG Wodehouse if you love to laugh. Jeeves and especially Blandings. I’ve been listening to Davidson since Blackstone days - on tapes - since 1990. Late 80’s. No more Farley! I beg you.