Stalwart Harry Flashman, arch-rotter and most decorated poltroon in the army, had not escaped from pirates, bookies, slavery and a mad black queen to be plunged into more peril if he could help it Alas, he couldn't! Ahead lay the bloodiest campaign ever fought in India, when Sikh, Briton and Sepoy contended for an empire and its fate rested on a crazy old Irish general, with the panic-stricken Flashman vainly trying to hide behind him