Books
June, 1986
China. The summer of 1860. The Taipings are at the throats of the Manchus in the worst civil war in history, so who else would be at the throat and lips of the emperor's number-one concubine but Harry Flashman? Yes, the cowardly but lionized hero of the British Empire is back in Flashman and the Dragon (Knopf), and author George MacDonald Fraser, too, is back in full writing form, whisking Flashy from the talon clutches of Szi-Zhan, the 6'6" queen of the river bandits, to the diabolical tor...