Royal Flash (Flashman) - Softcover

Fraser, George MacDonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452261120 ISBN 13: 9780452261129

Publisher: Plume Books, 1985

Synopsis

Is it a rotter we see before us? A coward? A lecher? A cheat? An absolute bounder? And possibly not even a gentleman? Yes, it's Flashman.

-right in the middle of Europe's Revolutions of 1848 - and he's using all his reserves of deceit, low cunning and treachery to stay one jump ahead of death! The incomparable Flashman is playing for his life against the unholy alliance of Count Otto von Bismarck and Lola Montez, as he tries to thwart a gigantic international double-cross that could change the destiny of a continent!

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Review:

Praise for the Flashman series
"Hilariously funny."--The New York Times Book Review

"Great dirty fun!"--Grand Rapids Press

"The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time... Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next... Wonderful and scandalous."--Publishers Weekly

"Raises dastardliness to the level of an art... One of the most amusing and sardonic novels I have ever read!"--Omaha World

"As irreverent and picaresque as Tom Jones and always more dramatic... Flashman is a one-man demolition squad!"--Chicago Today

"Marvelously entertaining... A delight!"--Providence Journal

From the Back Cover:

THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1842-1843
VOLUME TWO

In this second volume of The Flashman Papers, Flashman, the arch-cad and toady, matches his wits, his talents for deceit and malice, and above all his speed in evasion against the most brilliant European statesman and against the most beautiful and unscrupulous adventuress of the era. From London gaming-halls and English hunting -fields to European dungeons and throne-rooms, he is involved in a desperate succession of escapes, disguises, amours, and (when he cannot avoid them) hand-to-hand combats while the destiny of a continent rests on his broad and failing shoulders. Courtesans and prize-chambermaids crowd the pages of his memoirs, while old Flashy scuttles nimbly from cover to cover.

‘Fraser is a natural story-teller...Flashy is a wonderful character’
DAILY EXPRESS

‘MacDonald Fraser falls into what these days is an exclusive group: the storyteller who can write’
D J TAYLOR,' Sunday Times '

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume Books
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0452261120
• ISBN 13: 9780452261129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256