Over the wall

They’d been my associates in a botched attempt to rescue Max on the eve of his execution. We’d failed because (you’ll hardly credit this) the great clown had refused point-blank to escape because it didn’t sort with his imperial dignity, Austro-Hungarian royalty preferring to die than go over the wall.


Flashman on the March, p.5, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Riding to the rescue

…the last man you want riding to the rescue is G.A.C., for there’ll be blood on the carpet for certain…

Flashman and the Redskins, p.303, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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I would end here

So I would end here, in a god-forsaken miserable German ruin, trying to rescue a man I’d never met – I, who wouldn’t stir a finger to rescue my own grandmother.

Royal Flash, p.203, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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