Flashman And The Dragon

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Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship facility with foreign languages & 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. ' When all other trusts fail turn to Flashman' Abraham Lincoln In China in 1860 a lot of people mistakenly put their trust in Flashman: the English vicar's daughter with her cargo of opium; Lord Elgin in search of an intelligence chief; the Emperor's ravishing concubine seeking a champion in her struggles for power; & Szu-Zhan the female bandit colossus as practised in the arts of love as in the arts of war. They were not to know that behind his Victoria Cross Harry Flashman was a base coward & a charlatan. They took him at face value. & he took them for all he could while China seethed through the bloodiest civil war in history & the British & French armies hacked their way to the heart of the Forbidden City...