For the first time in four years comes a new book in George MacDonald Fraser's long-running series chronicling the adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman. Eleventh in the series, <b>Flashman and the Tiger</b> features not one, but three stories of international intrigue that find the fictional Flashman thrown headlong into historical events around the world. <br><br>This time out Flashman is thwarting an attempted assassination of Austria's Emperor Franz Josef ("The Road to Charing Cross"); getting to the bottom of the Tranby Croft gaming scandal–and the Prince of Wales' involvement in it ("The Subtleties of Baccarat"); and, in the title story, impacting the Zulu war while hunting down a longtime enemy. At once meticulously faithful to fact and wildly fanciful, <i>Flashman and the Tiger</i> is an educational romp through the annals of history; thirty years after he began the series, Fraser is at the top of his game.