Copperhead
by Bernard Cornwell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper price clipped. Gift inscription to the first blank.
- ISBN 10
- 0002243091
- ISBN 13
- 9780002243094
- Seller
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 199412
- Title
- Copperhead
- Author
- Bernard Cornwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper price clipped. Gift inscription to the first blank.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0002243091
- ISBN 13
- 9780002243094
- Publisher
- London: HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- civil war novels, civil war fiction, civil war stories, american novels, historic novels, historical novels, confederacy fiction, faulconer legion, virginia, betrayal, secret service fiction, espionage fiction, secret agents fiction, spying fiction, under
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