Sharpe's Peril & Sharpe's Challenge - Sean Bean BBC - 2 Pack DVD Set

Sharpe's Peril (BBC/2008/DVD) Sean Bean returns as Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe in the award-winning series! The year is 1818. Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper travel across India, escorting the beautiful Marie- Angelique Bonnet to meet her fiancé Major Joubert, towards the distant port of Calcutta, where Sharpe and Harper are due to take the ship to England. But little does Sharpe know that the adventure just begun and that he has inadvertently stumbled across a massive opium trafficking ring run by the ruthless colonel Dragomirov – a traitorous officer from the East India Company. Sharpe's Challenge (DVD) A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatches from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. The last scout sent, Sharpe's best friend Sergeant Harper -- has gone missing and reports suggests that the real power behind the risings is Colonel Dodd, a malcontent East India Company Officer, and that the Maharaja has gathered into his impregnable fort. Once inside the fort things do not quite go as Sharpe has planned.