Melander likes to do things flashy. When Parker finds himself working with Melander on a bank heist in a mid-sized midwestern city his job is throwing a Molotov cocktail into a gas station. The resulting explosion sends the cops & fire trucks to the east side of town while Melander & his gang plunder the bank on the west side. But Parker doesnt care for Melanders plan for a new heist one that will clean out Palm Beach of a lot of very expensive jewelry. What Parker really dislikes is Melanders intention to use the proceeds from the bank job to capitalize the Palm Beach job...including Parkers cut. Melander is very polite about Parkers disinterest & very sincere about paying him his share...with interest...after the jewelry job goes down. But thats not the way Parker works. Now hes tailing the gang down South with a plan for getting his own back...and the entire swag of gems besides. ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns 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. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness & none too welcome at home after seducing his fathers mistress the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigans Hussars. En route to Afghanistan our hero hones his skills as a soldier duellist imposter coward & amorist (mastering all 97 ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta) before being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent. His Afghan adventures culminate in a starring role in that great historic disaster the Retreat from Kabul. ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship
...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns 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. If only Flashman had got on with his dinner & ignored the handkerchief dropped by a flirtatious hussy in a Calcutta hotel! Well American history would have been different a disastrous civil war might have been avoided & Flashman himself would have been spared one of the most hair-raising adventures of his misspent life. If only! But alas the arch-rotter of the Victorian age could never resist the lure of a pretty foot. This latest extract of the Flashman Papers soon finds Flashman careering towards the little Virginian town of Harpers Ferry where John Brown & his gang of rugged fanatics were to fire the first shot in the great war against slavery. ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship
...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns 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. What was Harry Flashman doing on the slopes of Little Bighorn caught between the gallant remnant of Custers 7th Cavalry & the attack of Sitting Bulls braves? He was trying to get out of the line of fire & escape yet again with his life (if not his honour) intact. Here is the legendary & authentic West of Mangas Colorados Apaches of Kit Carson Custer & Spotted Tail of Crazy Horse & the Deadwood stage gunfighters & gamblers scoundrels & Indian belles enthusiastic widows & mysterious adventuresses. The West as it really was: terrifying! ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns 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 Sir Harry Flashman V.C. the celebrated Victorian soldier scoundrel amorist & self-confessed poltroons memoirs first came to light thirty years ago the world was finally illuminated about what became of the celebrated cowardly bully from Tom Browns Schooldays. Now in addition to the other famous adventures of Flash Harry contained in the Flashman Papers come three new episodes in the career of this eminent if disreputable adventurer. The title piece touches on two of the most spectacular military actions of the century & sees Flashman pitted against one of the greatest villains of the day & observing with his usual jaundiced eye two of its most famous heroes. ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship
...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship
...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns 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. Many have marvelled at General Napiers daring 1868 expedition through the treacherous peaks & bottomless chasms of Abyssinia to rescue a small group of British citizens held captive by the mad tyrant Emperor Theodore. But the vital role of Sir Harry Flashman V.C. in the success of this campaign has hitherto gone unrecorded. Flashmans undeserved reputation for heroism renders him the British Armys candidate of choice when it comes to skulking behind enemy lines in Ali Baba attire. After all who but the great amorist could contemplate navigating a land populated by hostile tribes & the loveliest (and most savage) women in Africa from leather-clad nymphs with a penchant for torture to a voluptuous barbarian queen with a reputation for throwing disobliging guests to her pet lions? ...