George MacDonald Fraser · 1994 · thriller

George MacDonald Fraser's 1994 novel. Kidnapped into the schemes of the abolitionist John Brown, Flashman is dragged from New York to Concord and into the doomed 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry - a bloody prelude to the American Civil War endured, as ever, by the great coward from the wrong side of history.

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   New York

   Where Flashman, abducted and blackmailed, is drawn into the abolitionist conspiracy against his will.

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   Concord

   The New England seat of John Brown's secret backers, the men financing his holy war on slavery.

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   Harper's Ferry

   The Virginia arsenal where Brown's raid ends in catastrophe, with Flashman in the thick of it.