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Royal Flash

The Flashman Papers, Book 2

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In Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in a battle of wits which will decide the destiny of a continent.

In this 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 beauiful 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.

All the while, the destiny of a continent rests on his broad and failing shoulders.

©2015 George MacDonald Fraser (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Action & Adventure Classics Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban Fiction Funny Witty Comedy

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"Sparkling one-liners adorn every chapter.... It is the verve of the storytelling, together with the verbal inventiveness, that lingers in the memory." ( Sunday Telegraph)
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very good un pc fun a ripping yarn in which you learn a bit of history found myself diving for the iPad to look up various characters . Very well read , can't wait for the next one .

A guilty pleasure

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Superb narration of the 2nd book on this antihero of antiheroes. You can tell Colin Mace at places practically bursts out laughing as he's reading.

THE antidote to political correctness in the 21stC

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good story, thorough history but not battle history, as we will come to admire in Fraser. well read, performed rather, by Mace. this is an essential set of flashman papers for the rest of his adventures. enjoy!

hoofing adventures with Harry

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I found I was hooked very quickly and really enjoyed it
not sure if gripping is the right word but I vertically listened non stop

excellent,

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A fine romp through the bedrooms of Europe. A cracking read. Victorian manners and hypocrites delightfully skewered once more.

GMF does again

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