Flashman in the Great Game
- Author: George MacDonald Fraser
- Publisher: Harper Collins
- Classification: Flashman Papers
We’re covering 1856-1858 in this 5th installment of the Flashman Papers. And where in the world would you really not want to be? India, just in time for the Indian Mutiny. Lucky old Flashy…
Flashy is back up in Barlmoral (apparently the queen fancied him, well according to him anyways) with his possibly brain-dead wife Elspeth, with not much to worry about at all. However, the then Prime Minister, Palmerston has got other ideas for our most cowardly of heroes.
Rumour has it that Russian spies are in India trying to stur up trouble and possibly rebellion. Apparently what’s got everyone so nervous is that chapattis are being passed around like tokens and this could mean rebellion, or God knows what. But what’s really caused the urgency is that they’re being passed around by the native troops as well.
Well there’s nothing else for it. Old ‘Bloody Lance’ needs to return to the field, and back to the very country where he made his name.
It’ll come as no surprise to anyone who’s read any of the books that make up the Flashman Papers, what follows is a great show in cowardly behaviour and blind luck in coming out of situations covered in glory.
But even old Flashy’s luck is tested as he romps with royalty, gets locks up in a truly unpleasant prison, generally shot at, nearly eaten by crockadiles, and final nearly executed by his own side. Accidently mind you.
Another decent addition to the Flashman Papers so get stuck in…
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