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Ep 602 - Sharpe's Eagle (Richard Sharpe #1), by Bernard Cornwell

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Richard Sharp's Bond Girl

Gibbons has been sleeping with a Portuguese woman named Josephine LaCosta, who's two notable characteristics are that she's hot and a former noblewoman. So far, Cornwall is really good at giving sort of vaguely odious names to people who we're supposed to not like. And then there's Lieutenant John Berry, whose only function is that he's friends with Gibbons and sucks. I don't like her whole deal in the book, mostly because she is like, what if you underwrote a Bond girl?

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