Flashman and the Tiger
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4.1 • 14 Ratings
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Publisher Description
It’s 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian beauty, Flashy is desperate for somewhere to take cover. So desperate, in fact, that he embarks on a perilous secret intelligence-gathering mission to help free a group of Britons being held captive by a tyrannical Abyssinian king. Along the way, of course, are nightmare castles, brigands, massacres, rebellions, orgies, and the loveliest and most lethal women in Africa, all of which will test the limits of the great bounder’s talents for knavery, amorous intrigue, and survival.
Flashman on the March—the twelfth book in George MacDonald Fraser’s ever-beloved, always scandalous Flashman Papers series--is Flashman and Fraser at their best.
Customer Reviews
A departure from the Flashma's traditin of true history, but still fun
The Flashman papers are simply the best historical fiction ever written (yes, even better than O'brian or Michner). You will never have more fun while learning so much lost history. If there is any flaw to the Flashman papers, is that they are so good you forget that it is fiction. Everything I ever learned about human nature I learned from Flashman's brutal and unbiased observation of his fellow man (and woman... and a lot of those). This collection of three short stories, stands apart from the other Flashman papers in that although drippin in history, it borrows too heavily from pure fiction. The appearance Sherlock Holmes (and several other blatantly fictional characters) somewhat spoils the feel of the stories. While this book falls short of the other Flashman papers, but it is still worth a read (or even a reread).