Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9361 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Synopsis
A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume II of the Flashman Papers When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future -- would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade? Was there, for that matter, very much difference? Once again Flashman's charm, cowardice, treachery, lechery and fleetness of foot see the lovable rogue triumph by the skin of his chattering teeth.

Customer Reviews

Over in a Flash.....
This is the 5th Flashman novel (chronologically) and is by far the best - so far. Fraser has nailed this one. Fast action, historical interest and the usual hillarious antics of Flashman make it an excellent read. Couldn't put this one down. Frequently tittered away to myself on my train journey to work. Other passengers probably thought I was mad! Thoroughly recommended.

Flashman vs the slave trade
The third of the Flashman series is a sublime meeting of form and function, way ahead of the first two novels. Wrapped up in a fast-moving, funny and genuinely exciting yarn is the author's well-researched mission to inform us of the horror, the complexity and the importance in the 19th century of the slave trade. Who better to cast a cynical eye on that most immoral of endeavours (almost incomprehensible to the modern mind) than our amoral `hands-on' anti-hero, Flashman? The author takes our engagingly unreliable, notoriously non-PC guide through the whole process, from the slave ship picking up its miserable cargo on the African coast, through the markets and the plantations of the slave states and on to the underground abolitionists helping runaways escape North. Even throws in a pivotal encounter with a young Abe Lincoln. Brilliant stuff, informing and entertaining in equal measure.

Flashman Comes to America (part 5 of 12)
Harry Flashman comes to America, not of his own choosing, and not aboard a luxury Ocean cruiser with the cream of society. But again Flash is on the run after a game of 21 ends up with him in hot water. Needing a quick exit he has no choice but to board a slaver. Soon he is out of one bed and into another, out of one frying pan and into another. Find out which bed and which frying pan now! Once you open the first page you will be dying to find out who is trying to trim Flash's mustache.

The great thing about Flashman is the historic journeys that he takes you on which you do not learn at school in your history lessons. The slave trade was not the finest hour of the British Empire, but here the author enters the subject with abandon. And we also meet some truly influential historical figures in Disraeli and Lincoln.

A 6-SHOOTER of a read: historical, humorous, educational, tense, sexy, and the best of British.