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Flashman and the Tiger - George McDonald Fraser

Description: ISBN 0007217226 / Author: George McDonald / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... hundred pages of this self-confessed poltroon having the most outrageously flamboyant adventures in far-flung locales, before ... more

... discovering that old Flashy, and sometimes his adversary, are actually the only fictional elements. This larger than life character leaves a very light footprint on recorded history, in spite of his cavorting in salt mines and acting as an immoral adviser to the future Edward VII. "Dirty Bertie" really was dragged into a libel case centering on alleged cheating in a game of baccarat in 1890, and the treaty which Flashman inveigles from a Russian diplomat really was scooped in full by the Times before it had...more

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Flashman and the Tiger - George McDonald Fraser: Eye of the Tiger (633 words)
by - written on 12/10/09 (Very useful, 32 readings)
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Part one of my holiday reading this year, Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman relates his twilight years in this eleventh and, sadly, penultimate volume of The Flashman Papers (the 'finder' of the papers, George MacDonald Fraser passed away early in 2008). In three separate episodes ranging from his early sixties to his mid-seventies, Flashman proves there's no rogue like an old rogue. In The Road to Charing Cross (by far the longest installment, comprising a good two thirds of the book), Harry foils a plot to assassinate the Emperor of Austria, before dropping an old rival for his wife's affections in hot water in The Subtleties of Baccarat. His final hurrah ... Read the complete review