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Flashman in the Great Game (The Flashman Papers, Book 8)

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.

What caused the Indian Mutiny? The greased cartridge, religious fanaticism, political blundering, yes – but one hitherto unsuspected factor is now revealed to be the furtive figure who fled across India in 1857 with such frantic haste: Flashman.

Plumbing new depths of anxious knavery in his role as secret agent extraordinaire, Flashman saw far more of the Great Mutiny than he wanted. How he survived Thugs and Tsarist agents, Eastern beauties and cabinet ministers and kept his skin intact is a mystery revealed here in this volume of The Flashman Papers.

 Espionage Genre Fiction Historical Literature & Fiction Political Spies & Politics 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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Trip into history, great adventure . Flashman at his best. Good narrator only couldn't pronounce the Indian words ver well..

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Brilliant book, again well read by Colin Mace. One of my favourites in the series. Deals with the horrors of the first Indian revolt and paints the horror of war

Flashman in Great Game

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Great fun staged around historical events
A book of the time which is shown by the authenticity of the terminology

Great story

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the finest out of all the flashman novels. it has everything you could want in a flashman novel

amazing

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I read the Flashman series as a teenager and 35 years later they are as good as I remember them to be. I highly recommend this audio series.

Wonderful

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