Copperhead
About this book
A copperhead is a turncoat – a northerner who sympathises with the South. Captain Nate Starbuck, forced out of his beloved Legion by the enmity of its founder, General Washington Faulconer, becomes caught up in a dangerous double game of espionage.A copperhead is a turncoat – a northerner who sympathises with the South. Captain Nate Starbuck, forced out of his beloved Legion by the enmity of its founder, General Washington Faulconer, becomes caught up in a dangerous double game of espionage.He is given no choice but to travel from a prison cell in Richmond, Virginia, to the secret centre of the high Northen command in a desperate attempt to thwart Yankee strategy which threatens to overwhelm the South.Starbuck plays a difficult and complex game of bluff and betrayal in a winner-takes-all effort to save his own life and return to the Legion – but at a high cost to his personal and professional loyalties as a friend and a man of war.
Subjects
- american civil war (1861-1865) fast (ocolc)fst01351658
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, war & military
- historical fiction
- history
- large type books
- nathaniel starbuck (fictitious character)
- richmond (va.) civil war, 1861-1865
- starbuck, nathaniel (fictitious character), fiction
- united states civil war, 1861-1865
- united states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction
- war stories