Black Ajax (33 page)

G
EORGE
M
AC
D
ONALD
F
RASER
, who has an established reputation worldwide as a humorist and a scholar of the Victorian era, now shows himself to be equally at home in the Regency period with
Black Ajax.
Like
Mr American
and
The Pyrates, Black Ajax
stands outside any series – although Captain Buckley “Mad Buck” Flashman, father of the notorious cad and scoundrel Harry Flashman, does play a large role. The eleventh and latest volume of the Flashman Papers is
Flashman and the Tiger
, which sees Flashman pitted against one of the greatest villains of the day, and observing, with his usual jaundiced eye, two of its most famous heroes. Thousands of readers around the world have also been delighted by the three volumes of stories about Private McAuslan, thoughtfully described as “the biggest walking disaster to hit the British Army since Ancient Pistol”.

George MacDonald Fraser served both in the Border Regiment in Burma during the war – his autobiography
Quartered Safe Out Here
became a bestseller – and in the Gordon Highlanders. He has worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada, and was deputy editor of the
Glasgow Herald.
In addition to his novels he has written numerous films, most notably
The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers
and the James Bond film,
Octopussy.

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THE FLASHMAN PAPERS
(
in chronological order)

Flashman
Royal Flash
Flashman's Lady
Flashman and the Mountain of Light
Flash for Freedom!
Flashman and the Redskins
Flashman at the Charge
Flashman in the Great Game
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
Flashman and the Dragon
Flashman and the Tiger

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Mr American
The Pyrates
The Candlemass Road

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SHORT STORIES

The General Danced at Dawn
McAuslan in the Rough
The Sheikh and the Dustbin

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HISTORY

The Steel Bonnets:
The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Quartered Safe out Here

*

The Hollywood History of the World

This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by
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1997

Copyright © George MacDonald Fraser 1997

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EPub Edition © 1997 ISBN: 9780007325641

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