Flashman's latest adventure, ninth in Fraser's popular series
(Flashman and the Dragon, Flashman and the Redskins. Flashman's
Lady, etc.), recalls his young days on the northwest frontier of
India when the Sikhs decided to take on the Raj. It all begins with
tea at Windsor Castle, where Queen Victoria has invited her dear
friends Elspeth and Sir Harry in order to get a little more
information about just exactly how she should display the enormous
Koh-i-noor diamond at her Jubilee, Sir Harry having been the first
to see it in the hands of its Indian owners at the time of the Sikh
revolt of the early 1840's. Actually, though, where Flashman first
saw it was in the succulent navel of dowager Maharani Jeendan, who
delights in passing it navel to navel with her dancing partners in
her Punjab palace. Flashman is in the Punjab to do a bit of spying.
In mufti and fully shaved, he has been sent to get a close look at
Punjabi politics, which have been in an uproar since the death of
the old maharaja. In the absence of a strong ruler, the democratic
cadres of the army have worked up a war fever and are contemplating
an attack on the British across the Sutlej river. No Flashman fan
will be surprised to learn that the politically shrewd but
thoroughly lewd maharani quickly takes a fancy to the newly married
Lt. Flashman or that Flashman quickly decides that royalty must be
obliged. Between their frolics, the history of the first Sikh
rebellion is presented in agreeable and understandable detail,
including chatty footnotes and a handy glossary. Smashing. (Kirkus
Reviews)
With the mighty Sikh Khalsa, the finest army ever seen in Asia, poised to invade India and sweep Britannia’s ill-guarded empire into the sea, every able-bodied man was needed to defend the frontier – and one at least had his answer ready when the Call of Duty came: ‘I’ll swim in blood first!’ Alas, though, for poor Flashy, there was no avoiding the terrors of secret service in the debauched and intrigue-ridden Court of the Punjab, the attentions of its beautiful nymphomaniac Maharani (not that he minded that, really), the horrors of its torture chambers or the baleful influence of the Mountain of Light.
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