If the American West was a place for heroes, what then was Harry Flashman doing there? Among other things, he was fleeing a murder charge... traveling with a brothel on wheels toward the California goldfields... betraying the scarlet woman who loved him... tricking the noble redmen while seducing their women... studiously ignoring all calls of duty and honor as he dealt with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok, Geronimo, Kit Carson, Crazy Horse, and George Custer... and reaching his moment of supreme inglory and fear at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Yes, Flashman was back in the thick of things - making the kind of history you will never learn in school.