''Black Ajax'' is a historical novel by

George MacDonald Fraser George MacDonald Fraser (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Harry Paget Flashman, Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven n ...

based on the career of Tom Molineaux. It is set during the

Regency era The Regency era of British history is commonly understood as the years between and 1837, although the official regency for which it is named only spanned the years 1811 to 1820. King George III first suffered debilitating illness in the lat ...

. The father of

Harry Flashman Sir Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional character created by Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) in the semi-autobiographical '' Tom Brown's School Days'' (1857) and later developed by George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008). Harry Flashman appears in a ...

appears as a major character although the book is not part of the official ''Flashman'' series. As in those novels, several real life characters are depicted including: * Tom Molineaux * Bill Richmond * Tom Cribb *

George IV George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830. At the time of his accession to the throne, h ...

* Beau Brummel * Pierce Egan * Harriette Wilson * Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort

References

{{Flashman novels Novels by George MacDonald Fraser 1997 British novels HarperCollins books British historical novels Novels set in the 1810s