Book description
In Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale
Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in a battle of wits
which will decide the destiny of a continent.
In this volume of The Flashman Papers, Flashman, the arch-cad and
toady, matches his wits, his talents for deceit and malice, and above
all his speed in evasion against the most brilliant European statesman
and against the most beauiful and unscrupulous adventuress of the era.
From London gaming-halls and English hunting-fields to European
dungeons and throne-rooms, he is involved in a desperate succession of
escapes, disguises, amours and (when he cannot avoid them) hand-to-hand combats.
All the while, the destiny of a continent rests on his broad and
failing shoulders. 'Sparkling one-liners adorn every chapter…It is the
verve of the story-telling, together with the verbal inventiveness, that
lingers in the memory' Sunday Telegraph The author of the famous
Flashman Papers and the Private McAuslan stories, George MacDonald
Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition to
his novels he has also written numerous screenplays, most notably The
Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, and the James Bond film,
Octopussy.
