Royal Flash (Flashman)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
• Published by: Plume March 1, 1985
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0452261120
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0452261129
• Book Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 8 ounces

Reader Reviews
One bloody narrow escape after another! Flashman, Aubrey/Maturin, Jack Bauer! It must be atavistic, the thrill I feel from them, hormonally encrypted by my neanderthal evolution! Plus Flashman comes with 'entremeses' of lechery between the entrees of fish and foul! If you are so much as considering RoyaL Flash, you should - you must - have read the first of the series, titled simply Flashman. If you haven't, I'll tell you only that Harry Flashman is the most cynical craven con-man to slither through historical fiction since the picaresque adventures of Lazarillo de Tormes. Wny it's almost plausible that such a scoundrel might have skulked in the crevices of history, playing a necessary but unrecorded role! And you may be sure that nearly all the historical allusions and settings of the Flashman books are quite authentic. In Royal Flash, our anti-hero's opponent is none other than Otto von Bismark; I'm dead certain that anyone who read RF before the age of 25 would never be able to conceptualize Bismark other than as portrayed by George MacDonald Fraser. This second book of the Flashman Papers takes a good thirty pages to build up speed, but then it's.... one bloody narrow escape after another, as our Harry lucks out against the blondest blue-eyed beasts all Germany can muster, without ever being forced to act courageously. Read it! You know you can't resist! If you've come this far, you're doomed to read them all.