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Flashman in the Great Game
- The Flashman Papers, Book 8
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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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- Darcy Moore
- 07-01-2024
The writing
The writing in this series of books about Flashman, that scoundrel from Tom Brown’s Schooldays, truly sparkles. Love it!
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- Anonymous User
- 16-07-2021
Is there a poor Flashman novel? No
I've read all the Flashman novels, and as others have noted, it took me to the history books. My only cavil is the reader, Colin Mace; not as good as Rupert Pendry-Jones, who read the first audiobook "Flashman". Pendry-Jones nailed the lolling, devil-may-care voice and general arrogance and insouciance I'd always imagined Flashman to have. Mace's accent is right, but he speaks too quickly at first, leaving nowhere to go when the pressure is on. He calms down later. Less OK is the mispronunciation of Jhansi and Pathan. Can't imagine what Harper Audio were thinking. Still worth the purchase, though.
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