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Based on a true story, this novel tells of Tom Molineux, an American slave who won his freedom in a fight in the American South. He then set his sights on beating the champion of the country where prize fighting originated, the famous Tom Cribb of Bristol.
A wonderfully entertaining novel from George MacDonald Fraser, author of the hugely successful Flashman books.
When Captain Buck Flashman sees the black boxer catch a fly in mid-flight he realises that he is in the presence of speed such as the prize ring has never seen. Tom Molineaux may be crude and untutored, but if ‘Mad Buck’ knows anything(and like his notorious son, the archcad Harry Flashman, he has an unerring eye for the main chance) this ex-slave from America is a champion in the making, on whose broad shoulders the ambitious Captain can climb to sporting and social fame.
Thus the ‘Black Ajax’ is shaped into the wonder of the fancy and toast of the town. A national celebrity, simple Tom is carried on a popular tide of sporting fever towards his great dream: to fight the invincible, undefeated champion of England, Tom Cribb. Told in a series of superbly individual voices, 'Black Ajax'creates a magnificent picture of Regency England and a portrait of a flawed hero who surmounted the barriers of ignorance, poverty and racial hatred to bring to the prize ring a lustre it had never known before, and may never again.
“Mr Fraser is a great historical novelist and in 'Black Ajax' he is at the very top of his form. Damme if he ain’t.”
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW, 'DAILY MAIL'
“This is not a flashy novel, wearing its learning noisily. It’s rigorous, intelligent, meticulously horrifying. Wonderfully well done.”
NICCI GERRARD,'OBSERVER'
BLACK AJAX
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