Copperhead
by Cornwell, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- A fine copy, some smudging and shelf wear to very good (+) DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0002243091
- ISBN 13
- 9780002243094
- Seller
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Oakland, California, 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
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30100
- Title
- Copperhead
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy, some smudging and shelf wear to very good (+) DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002243091
- ISBN 13
- 9780002243094
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
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