Somewhere I THOUGHT I read who was your FAVORITE  character among all your writings.  Now, I’m thinking it must have been simply a rambling in my mind as I re-read many of your books when I was full of the pain killer percocet that I was taking for a terribly broken ankle, because after more than an hour’s searching this morning in COMMENTS and QUESTIONS on your website, I have not been able to find such!  Did I imagine that–even thinking your favorite character’s name began with a “D?”   I myself would be hard put to name a favorite character, for many are so perfectly “nailed,”  though Uhtred and Sharpe SURELY top the list; and, incidentally, if Sharpe’s SON by Lucille is EVER to be portrayed in a movie (Starbuck series) , the perfect casting, to me,  would be Gilles Marini:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Marini 
http://www.examiner.com/article/dancing-with-the-stars-gilles-marini-dances-for-you-and-to-celebrate-life 
As Sharpe’s son by Lucille, his English would be French accented, as is Marini’s.  Moreover, as you describe Sharpe’s appearance, to me, Marini would be the perfect cast as the look-alike descendant—he’s tall, and is dark-haired; and you describe Sharpe as being attractive, at times even eliciting jealously of others in the military.  Anyway, I’m inserting the above because I was APPALLED at the casting, especially of Harper, on a Richard Sharpe YouTube video I saw months ago–the entire video didn’t do the Sharpe series justice.  I was incensed.  Sean Bean did became popular as Sharpe; however, he doesn’t capture (just to me, perhaps) Sharpe’s appearance as you describe him, and perhaps not entirely his manner, as I interpreted it.   Maybe others of your readers may feel the same? Or disagree?

Elfreth