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The novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman adventure stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said. The popular books saw womanising anti-hero Sir Harry Flashman, fight his way around the British Empire.
MacDonald Fraser, who was appointed an OBE in 1999, also wrote the screenplay for James Bond film Octopussy.
The Carlisle-born journalist turned author, who lived on the Isle of Man, had fought cancer for several years.
He was married and had three children.


more: BBC NEWS | UK | Author of Flashman stories dies

I'll remember him more for the Steel Bonnets than for Flashman. He was one of the best writers I ever had the pleasure of reading.

Rest in Peace