Susie glanced at me, lifting a warning finger. 'But by and by he (Spring) said less and less, and that none too clearly I was just beginning to wonder if the drink had got to him for once when he suddenly gave a great sigh, and a staring yawn, caught at his chair arms as though to rise, and then fell face foremost into the blancmange. And being a steel-minded businesswoman, Susie dealt with the insane Captain Spring in the following manner, during supper: Lacking in any morals, yet providing a great deal of practicality, Flashman accepted her proposal.

After a few bouts of sex, Susie asked him to marry. Flashman’s reunion with Susie proved to be just as sensuous as their last encounter.

After Spring killed the aggressively suspicious Omohundro during a brutal saloon fight, he and Flashman ended up seeking refuge with another one of Flashy’s past acquaintances from 'FLASH FOR FREEDOM!' - the red-haired Cockney-born madam named Susie Wilnick. Unfortunately for both men, Fate had a different path in mind when they encountered one of Flashman’s old nemesis at a local saloon – a slave trader/planter named Peter Omohundro, whom young Flashy had encountered on a northbound Mississippi River steamboat several months ago. In return, Spring agreed to provide Flashman passage back to England. British Army officer Harry Flashman had just testified at Captain John Charity Spring's trial, enabling the psychotic sea captain to avoid being convicted for slave trading in U.S. Since this particular novel happened to be an immediate follow-up to Fraser's third novel, 'FLASH FOR FREEDOM!', 'FLASHMAN AND THE REDSKINS' began where the 1971 novel had ended – on the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana in the early spring of 1849. Penned by George MacDonald Fraser and published in 1982, the novel also happens to be my favorite in the series.

It will not be the last, but it certainly was the first.

Set during the Old West of 1849-50 and the mid 1870s, 'FLASHMAN AND THE REDSKINS' has the distinction of being the first novel in the Flashman Papers series to begin outside of Great Britain. 'FLASHMAN AND THE REDSKINS' (1982) Book Review Below is my review of 'FLASHMAN AND THE REDSKINS', author George MacDonald Fraser's seventh novel in the Flashman Papers series:

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