Mr. American, George MacDonald Fraser
Mr. American, George MacDonald Fraser
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Mr. American

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrator: David Case

Unabridged: 23 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2010


Synopsis

No one knew who Mark Franklin was when he disembarked at Liverpool in 1909 with a copy of Shakespeare's works, an old Mexican charro saddle and two Remingtons in his battered luggage. He was just another American, tall and softly-spoken. Even General Flashman never guessed the whole truth.

About The Author

George MacDonald Fraser was born in England and served in a Highland regiment in India, Africa, and the Middle East. In addition to the twelve Flashman novels, he wrote screenplays, most notably for the James Bond film Octopussy. He died in 2008.


Reviews

Goodreads review by F.R.

And there I was thinking that I’d read everything George MacDonald Fraser wrote about Flashman. The reason this novel leapt off the shelf at me at the local book emporium, was the realisation that Harry Flashman played some part in this tale. The blurb to my copy reads “even old General Flashman, who......more

Goodreads review by Adam

What a remarkable read. On the face of it, a simple tale which tells the story of a mysterious American who arrives in England, in 1909, with a small fortune and a checkered past. But it is set against the backdrop of an era in England, and indeed the world, where changes in industry and warfare wou......more

Goodreads review by Mike

"And to those imagined people on the road away, so very long ago, who had travelled so far and so well, so that he might travel back, and in the way of things, set out again." (pg. 550) The cover of George MacDonald Fraser's novel Mr. American includes one line cherry-picked from a review in The Time......more

Goodreads review by Helen

In my opinion, this is GMF best work of fiction. Better than Flashman. It is a picture of Britain in the years just before the First World War with all the beauty and cynicism portrayed through the eyes of a visiting American. Utterly superb.......more