Flashman

SOLDIER, LOVER, ADVENTURER, HE FOUGHT AND WENCHED HIS WAY TO GLORY (AND LECHERY AND SKULLDUGGERY AND CONDUCT UNBECOMING A GENTLEMAN)..."SPLENDIDLY ENTERTAINING!"
-TIME

CAN A MAN
-who is expelled from school as a drunken bully*
--who seduces his father's mistress to begin a secret life that leads from the boudoirs and bordellos of
Victorian England to the erotic frontiers of her exotic Empire --who lies, cheats, steals, fights fixed duels, betrays his country, and proves a coward on the battlefield
BE ALL BAD?