That cad Flashman, the raging bully who mercilessly hazed Tom Brown
in Tom Brown's School Days, has gone on to star in five of his own
bed-and-battle adventures (excerpts from his memoirs), and
continues his lubricious epic hellbent,'still buffeted by lust (".
. . so I had her breasts out with one hand and my breeches down
with the other while I was still kicking the door to, and she
completed her undressing while we were positively humping the
mutton all the way to the couch. . . . By George, she was a heavy
woman, but nimble as an eel for all her elegant poundage. . .").
After his liaison with Lola Montez in Bavaria, Flashman's back in
England, picking up dirty money by cheating at cricket; by skill,
luck, and trickery he defeats the three greatest cricketers in
Christendom. At one match his beautiful birdbrain wife Elspeth
indiscreetly sets herself up to be seduced by a swarthy Far Eastern
millionaire, and then on a pleasure cruise to Singapore and other
far places, she's kidnapped by him. Flashy is off in chase,
starting brushfire wars in minor Eastern countries and falling into
the arms of Madagascar's lustful mass-murderess Queen Ranavalona,
whom he pleasures in her bath. Neither Flashy nor Fraser show any
lack of steam, and this remains among the most stylish series about
19th-century military studsmen. (Kirkus Reviews)
When Flashman, the most decorated poltroon of the Victorian age, accepted an invitation from his old enemy, Tom Brown of Rugby, to join in a friendly cricket match, he little knew that he was letting himself in for the most desperate game of his scandalous career – a deadly struggle that would see him scampering from the hallowed wicket of Lord's to the jungle lairs of Borneo pirates, from a Newgate hanging to the torture-pits of Madagascar, from Chinatown dens to slavery in the palace of a mad black queen. If he had known what lay ahead, Flashman would never have taken up cricket seriously.
"In his own field Fraser is the best-informed novelist writing today"
GLASGOW HERALD
"Mr Fraser’s narrative drive and critical affection for makers and shakers of dominions are whole-hearted pleasures”
THE TIMES
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