Sharpe’s Enemy: The Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812 (The Sharpe Series, Book 16)Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday Telegraph Spain, December 1812 In a deathly cold winter on the Spanish Portuguese border, a group of deserters take British hostages and it falls to Major Richard Sharpe to lead the perilous rescue mission in the biting cold mountains where he faces one of his oldest, and most cunning, adversaries. The British armys fate rests on the hostages liberation. Outnumbered and attacked from two sides, it