Honestly, if you haven’t read the entire Flashman series already by George MacDonald Fraser you should start, and then get to Flashman and the Mountain of Light in your own sweet time. The Flashman novels are marvelous, and will also at the same time teach you a remarkable amount about 19th century Anglo-American history. They’re also guilty pleasures, largely because Sir Harry Flashman is the guiltiest of guilty pleasures. Well, for you. He personally felt no guilt at all. But he was probably annoyed after this particular adventure…
And so, adieu to A Mountain Walked.
I read these @ 18 years ago before the internet was a thing. “American Flashman” is the easiest shorthand to describe them, unfortunately accurate information about the author or the possibility of any more is scarce, even in our golden age of information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenwick_Travers
Sharpe’s, Hornblower, Harrington. Thoughts?
This: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00847NUVW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
is apparently the origin of the character. According to Amazon…
Hornblower books are good – read in order of publication, not in order of internal chronology.
Watch all the Sharpe’s telemovies from the BBC – Sean Bean and a host of character actors really chew it up. And its really impressive how many of them they churned out in such a short time.