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A Tale Of Two Toms
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19980409
Author:Michael Kernan
BLACK AJAX By George MacDonald Fraser Carroll & Graf. 256 pp. $23 It was inevitable that George MacDonald Fraser would occasionally pause in the Flashman series. To my knowledge, there have been 10 of these amusing historical novels, based on the memoirs of the fictional bully from "Tom Brown's Schooldays," a poltroon masquerading hilariously as a hero.
The original Flashman book was a delight, but the ones that followed became progressively less delightful as invention flagged and the hero tired. Now Fraser has put his peculiar mix of history and imagination to work on Tom Molineaux, ...
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