Didn't you have a bet on that, with a name like mine, I would be a huge, red-headed Irishman?

Sharpe in a temper was a fearsome thing, but the huge Irishman had been long enough with the officer not to be worried.

The man looked up at the huge Irishman.

Lynch stared up at Harper, not knowing what to say or do, and the huge Irishman smiled back.

The huge Irishman's boots were loud on the wooden floor as he went to stand behind and to one side of Sharpe.

The thing is, sir," the huge Irishman said, "that I drank a drop too much last night.

The huge Irishman was easing the flint of his rifle, unfired, into the safe position.

Harper could not detect any breath, yet the fingers had not been cold, and the huge Irishman put a single finger onto the long scar.

He had just paid for the whisky when the door blew open, and a huge Irishman staggered into the establishment.

Historical fiction about a huge Irishman and a scientist.