Black Ajax
When Captain Buckley "Mad Buck" Flashman, father of the notorious Harry, sees a black American boxer catch a fly in mid-flight, he realizes he has discovered the prize ring's best, and potentially most lucrative, fighter ever. What follows in George MacDonald Fraser's colorful re-creation of Regency England is the powerful, rollicking, and moving tale of Tom Molineaux, a freed slave from New Orleans who challenged Britain's celebrated and undefeated champion Tom Cribb. The "Black Ajax" became no less famous a figure in England than Napoleon - and just as much a threat to its establishment as he boxed his way into legend and created the precedent for modern black prizefighters.
FictionHistoricalSportsCultural Heritage
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERCharnwood
LENGTH377
LANGUAGEEN
George MacDonald Fraser(2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven novels and one short-story collection in the Flashman series of novels, as well as non-fiction, short stories, novels and screenplays—including those for the James Bond film Octopussy and an adaptation of his own novel Royal Flash.
Black Ajax
When Captain Buckley "Mad Buck" Flashman, father of the notorious Harry, sees a black American boxer catch a fly in mid-flight, he realizes he has discovered the prize ring's best, and potentially most lucrative, fighter ever. What follows in George MacDonald Fraser's colorful re-creation of Regency England is the powerful, rollicking, and moving tale of Tom Molineaux, a freed slave from New Orleans who challenged Britain's celebrated and undefeated champion Tom Cribb. The "Black Ajax" became no less famous a figure in England than Napoleon - and just as much a threat to its establishment as he boxed his way into legend and created the precedent for modern black prizefighters.
FictionHistoricalSportsCultural Heritage
RELEASED1998
PUBLISHERCharnwood
LENGTH377
LANGUAGEEN
George MacDonald Fraser(2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven novels and one short-story collection in the Flashman series of novels, as well as non-fiction, short stories, novels and screenplays—including those for the James Bond film Octopussy and an adaptation of his own novel Royal Flash.
