IF ANY MAN CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE ITS RICHARD SHARPE . . .And the impossible is exactly what the irrepressible Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission behind enemy lines, deep in the Spanish countryside.For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the centre of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French armies march towards the bridge, one from the North and one from the South. If they meet, the British are lost.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 as the French march ever closer to the frontline, time is running out