The Speedicut Papers recounts in very frank detail the life, loves, and adventures of Jasper Speedicut?charmer, sexual libertine, reluctant hero, and friend of the self-styled brigadier general Sir Harry Flashman, VC. Comprising a nine-volume series of linked adventures and anecdotes in memoir format, The Speedicut Papers lifts the lid from a veritable cesspit of Victorian and Edwardian upper-class debauchery that makes Downton Abbey look like a vicarage tea party. It is also a unique account of Speedicut?s involvement in some of the greatest?and also some long-forgotten?events in the British Empire and beyond during the period of 1821?1915. In Flashman?s Secret, the first volume of the saga,