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Copperhead (Starbuck Chronicles)
by Cornwell, Bernard
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060177667
- ISBN 13
- 9780060177669
- Seller
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Woodlawn, Illinois, United States
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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
- Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046558
- Title
- Copperhead (Starbuck Chronicles)
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060177667
- ISBN 13
- 9780060177669
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 375
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- United States History - Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction; Starbuck, Nathaniel - (Fictitious Character) - Fiction. Historical
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