He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman. Purchase options and add-ons. Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian beauty, Flashy is desperate for somewhere to take cover.
So desperate, in fact, that he embarks on a perilous secret intelligence-gathering mission to help free a group of Britons being held captive by a tyrannical Abyssinian king. Report an issue with this product.
Previous slide of product details. Print length. Publication date. See all details. Next slide of product details. So exciting. Readers will find themselves simply turning the pages. He is. He died in All rights reserved. The cash must reach this place in Africa within four weeks? And the chap who was to have escorted it is laid up in Venice with yellow jack?
Good old Flash! Lloyd packet to Alexandria. Heavens, man, steam craft and spaghetti sailors are ten a penny in Trieste! Let me see. Not Bob the Bughunter? What the blazes is he doing in Abyssinia?
With an army from India! Good God, Flashy, where have you been? Why is he invading? Purest silver, you see, and Napier must have it for food and forage when he marches up-country to fight his war. All for England, home, and the beauteous Elspeth, you were. You and Hookey Walker!
