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From: Winnipeg Free Press
Date: 20080106
Author:Anonymous

Gerald Flood

BRITISH writer George MacDonald Fraser died last week at the age of 82. Which means that Harry Flashman died with him. Which means the world has lost one of the most entertaining but utterly debased scoundrels ever invented. Which means we won't discover what role he played at Rorke's Drift. Or does it?

Fraser, who started out as a newspaperman -- he even worked next door in Saskatchewan for a spell -- wrote some 33 books and screenplays, the best known of which were the 12 books in the Flashman series, the last of which was published in 2005. Fraser was fighting cancer by then.

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