![]() ![]() ![]() He’s a cad, a coward, and an unrepentant racist he’s treacherous, larcenous, and vindictive besides. ![]() ![]() He’s a survivor, and an accurate judge of other people’s character and abilities, but beyond that, he’s the very definition of reprehensible. The only thing missing? The heroism of our anti-hero, Harry Paget Flashman. Plus primitive rifles, dueling pistols, and cannons. Swords, after all, form a big part of heroic fantasy, and in Flashman (first published in 1969, never out of print), swords of many types are on display and put to use. So let’s set aside fantasy for just a moment and allow for historical action-adventure as a sideline of the vast cultural behemoth that is now Black Gate. As the fool on the hill once opined, everything old is new. That has now been corrected, and just in time, too: no lesser a light than Ridley Scott ( Alien Blade Runner) is developing a reboot of Flashman with 20th Century Fox. That man was George MacDonald Fraser, he who wrote the Flashman books, a series into which I had never delved. A few months back, I was (ever so gently) castigated for not giving proper credit to the screenwriter of the Michael York / Oliver Reed rendition of The Three Musketeers. ![]()
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