Flashman and the Dragon - first UK edition

by George MacDonald Fraser

Eighth book in series. In China in 1860, Flashman gets mixed up with the lovely daughter of the Vicarage, desperate to sell her cargo of opium up the Pearl River; the British Minister who needed a daring agent to penetrate to the heart of the terrible Taiping rebellion; the Emperor's ravishing concubine, seeking a champion in her struggle for power in the tottering Manchu empire, and a strange cast of others. Taking the debonair Flash Harry at face value can be regretted later ... 

Fine (as new) book, red with gold lettering on the spine, with an as-new dust jacket. Beautiful dustjacket art work marred by the inclusion of a bar code.    ;-(