num_pages: 563
description: January 1864 –General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.The name of the weapon is the AK-47...
language: English
title: The Guns of the South: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Guns of the South: A Novel
characters: Nate Caudell, Andries Rhoodie, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Robert E. Lee
genres: Alternate History, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Civil War
ratings_count: 8942
places: Virginia, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: John Esten Cooke Fiction Award
category: Southern Fiction
publisher: Del Rey