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Flashman and the Dragon

The Flashman Papers, Book 10

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Flashman and the Dragon

By: George MacDonald Fraser
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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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.

‘When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman’ Abraham Lincoln

In China in 1860, a lot of people mistakenly put their trust in Flashman: the English vicar’s daughter with her cargo of opium; Lord Elgin in search of an intelligence chief; the Emperor’s ravishing concubine, seeking a champion in her struggles for power; and Szu-Zhan, the female bandit colossus, as practised in the arts of love as in the arts of war.

They were not to know that behind his Victoria Cross, Harry Flashman was a base coward and a charlatan. They took him at face value. And he took them, for all he could, while China seethed through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hacked their way to the heart of the Forbidden City…

©2015 George MacDonald Fraser (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Action & Adventure Historical Literature & Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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Critic reviews

'The Flashman Papers do what all great sagas do – winning new admirers along the way but never, ever betraying old ones. It is an immense achievement.' Sunday Telegraph

‘Not so much a march as a full-blooded charge, fortified by the usual lashings of salty sex, meticulously choreographed battle scenes and hilariously spineless acts of self preservation by Flashman.’ Sunday Times

‘Not only are the Flashman books extremely funny, but they give meticulous care to authenticity. You can, between the guffaws, learn from them.’ Washington Post

‘A first-rate historical novelist’ Kingsley Amis

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I found it harder than the others to follow, and ends before it's finished...

Not the best of the series, but pretty good

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It is simply never enough. One's appetite for Flash cannot be satiated. Non Sufficit Orbis

A damned jolly diversion

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The thing about the Flashman books is that they’re not only superbly entertaining and also incredibly educational.
I probably know more than most about history but honestly these books have opened completely new areas to me particularly and obviously the Victorian era. I’ve just completed number eight with this one and moving onto number nine. Cannot wait.
By the way the guy that reads the Flashman books for audio is absolutely fantastic!!!!

Entertainment and learning

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brilliant story great accents by Colin but he shouts when speaking Flashmans thoughts slightly irritating

A superb Flashy

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Haven’t read any Flashman for years and this adventure did not disappoint. Not for the PC or faint hearted. Odd that our current PM seems to base his life and policy on old Flashman 🤣

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