Copperhead

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.

First Sentence

THE INVASION BEGAN AT MIDNIGHT.

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Other Editions

• CopperheadElectronic resourceHarperCollins2006-01-01
• CopperheadChivers P.1994-01-01
• CopperheadHarperCollinsPublishers1994-01-01
• Copperhead [Starbuck Chronicles]HardcoverHarpercollins1995-01-01
• CopperheadLondon1995-01-01
• CopperheadChivers Press1995-01-01