A portion of Flashman's followers, who have tracked the
peregrinations of that Victorian rotter through European-based
adventures in survival, may find this excursion on the American
slavery scene a bit too strong. If there's anything that bothers
Flashman about slavery it's the smell and occasional gore, to which
he's introduced after being shanghaied aboard a slave ship
captained by a piratical whip-wielding former don given to Latin
homilies. After a trip to Africa to pick up cargo, Flashman lands
in America, shifts identity, gets involved with starchy
Abolitionists, finally escapes with a female slave (there's a chase
across the ice before he has a chance to desert her) and is almost
netted by a government inquiry. Abraham Lincoln (who recognizes
another "humbug "when he sees one), appears twice as Flashman's
savior, scum on the groundswell of history. Another bawdy progress
with much jolly "rogering" (the sex euphemisms have a period charm)
and very black humor handle with care. (Kirkus Reviews)
When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future – would it lie in the House of Commons or in the West African slave trade? Was there, for that matter, very much difference? For one thing was certain, that Flashman would bring to his third great adventure all the qualities which had earned him fame and honour in the First Afghan War and brought him through his deadly power struggle with Bismark: Qualities like charm, cowardice, quickness of thought, treachery, lechery, and above all, fleetness of foot.
"The Flashman books bristle with action…and they are very, very funny."
THE TIMES
"George MacDonald Fraser is going great guns, and happy thought he still has some 50 years of the rascal's misdeeds to regale us with."
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