Copperhead

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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

Places: Richmond (Va.),  United States

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865