Flashman on the March

The Flashman Papers, Book 11

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown’s schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents – horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all.

Many have marvelled at General Napier's daring 1868 expedition through the treacherous peaks and bottomless chasms of Abyssinia to rescue a small group of British citizens held captive by the mad tyrant Emperor Theodore. But the vital role of Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., in the success of this campaign has hitherto gone unrecorded.

Flashman's undeserved reputation for heroism renders him the British Army's candidate of choice when it comes to skulking behind enemy lines in Ali Baba attire. After all, who but the great amorist could contemplate navigating a land populated by hostile tribes and the loveliest (and most savage) women in Africa, from leather-clad nymphs with a penchant for torture to a voluptuous barbarian queen with a reputation for throwing disobliging guests to her pet lions?

©2015 George MacDonald Fraser (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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I cant imagine GMF would be alive - not hung drawn and quartered - in todays's sickeningly childish and affected literary climate and I salute Audible for having the nuts to keep these in the inventory. Total amusement and high entertainment that is so politically incorrect that half the laughs are forbidden these days when everything and everyone is so self-important and unsmiling and serious. A great series you have to follow to the delightful end.