When it comes to skulking behind enemy lines in Ali Baba disguise, Flash Harry is the British Army???s candidate of choice Thus, when General Robert Napier needs an agent to undertake a perilous mission into deepest Abyssinia, who better for the job than Flashman? In a land populated by the loveliest (and most savage) women in Africa ??? from leather-clad nymphs with a penchant for torture to de-ballacking Amazons and a barbarian queen with a reputation for throwing disobliging guests to her pet lions ??? Flashman???s mastery of lechery, treachery and poltroonery will be put to the ultimate test