A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume II of the Flashman Papers When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli & Lord George Bentinck he was making an unconscious choice about his own future -- would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade? Was there for that matter very much difference? Once again Flashmans charm cowardice treachery lechery & fleetness of foot see the lovable rogue triumph by the skin of his chattering teeth.