Copperhead (Starbuck Chronicles)
by Cornwell, Bernard
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- Paperback
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- 0006179193
- ISBN 13
- 9780006179191
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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.
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- Title
- Copperhead (Starbuck Chronicles)
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 4
- ISBN 10
- 0006179193
- ISBN 13
- 9780006179191
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Pub Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1994
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