Flashman and the Dragon by George Macdonald Fraser

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Flashman and the Dragon by George Macdonald Fraser

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China, 1860, and Flashman wins the trust of the English vicar's daughter with her cargo of opium, Lord Elgin in search of an intelligence chief, the Emperor's concubine, and the female bandit colossus Szu-Zhan. They take him at face value and he takes them for all he can.

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Flashman and the Dragon by George Macdonald Fraser

George MacDonald Fraser's famous Flashman series appearing for the first time in B-format with an exciting new series style, ready to please his legions of old fans and attract armies of new ones. The Flashman Papers 1860 Volume Eight 'When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman' Abraham Lincoln Unfortunately, in China in 1860, a lot of people did: 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; and 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, Flash Harry was a base coward and a charlatan. They took him at face value. And he took them, for all he could, while China seethed through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hacked their way to the heart of the Forbidden City...
'If ever there was a time when I felt that watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman' PG Wodehouse 'Mr Fraser is a skilful and meticulous writer, twice as good as Buchan and twenty times better than Fleming' Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard
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 films, most notably 'The Three Musketeers', 'The Four Musketeers', and the James Bond film, 'Octopussy'.
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ISBN 13 9780006513032
ISBN 10 0006513034
Title Flashman and the Dragon
Author George Macdonald Fraser
Series The Flashman Papers
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1999-11-01
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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