

Royal Flash
Author: George MacDonald Fraser
Narrator: David Case
Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/20/2012
Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction
Author: George MacDonald Fraser
Narrator: David Case
Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/20/2012
Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Action & Adventure, Historical Fiction
George MacDonald Fraser was born in England and served in a Highland regiment in India, Africa, and the Middle East. In addition to the twelve Flashman novels, he wrote screenplays, most notably for the James Bond film Octopussy. He died in 2008.
Last week I finally got around to reading Les Trois Mousquetaires, and this week, more or less by accident, I read Royal Flash. They're both excellent historical thrillers, and it's interesting to compare them. MacDonald Fraser is following very much in Dumas's footsteps. He takes real historical ev......more
Sir Harry Flashman, highly decorated officer of the 11th Light Dragoons, is a cad, a chauvinist, a misogynist, an adulterer, and most of all a coward. His positive qualities consist of having a natural gift for foreign tongues (in this case this can be interpreted as a double entendre ), being a goo......more
For you poor folks who have never heard of the Flashman series, they tell the story of your classic Victorian adventurer, a man who travels through many lands, making his way by his wits and his skill and always being drawn into the dangers of politics, secret plots, and local politics. But the hero......more
I didn’t like Royal Flash quite as much as the first book in the series, probably because this is the lone Flashman novel set in a fictional location (instead of throwing Flashy directly into real-world events). The Flashman books work (at least for me) on three different levels: there’s the adventu......more
Praise for the Flashman series
“Hilariously funny.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Great dirty fun!”—Grand Rapids Press
“The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next… Wonderful and scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly
“Raises dastardliness to the level of an art… One of the most amusing and sardonic novels I have ever read!”—Omaha World
“As irreverent and picaresque as Tom Jones and always more dramatic… Flashman is a one-man demolition squad!”—Chicago Today
“Marvelously entertaining… A delight!”—Providence Journal