Title: Copperhead
First published: 1994
Description: 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: War stories, Richmond (Va.) Civil War, 1861-1865, Fiction, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Historical fiction, Nathaniel Starbuck (Fictitious character), American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658, History, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Historical Fiction, Starbuck, nathaniel (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, action & adventure
Places: Richmond (Va.), United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865