Book 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. Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised
in Essex, and now lives mainly in the USA with his wife. In addition to
the hugely successful Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell is the author of
the Starbuck Chronicles, the Warlord trilogy, the Grail Quest series,
the Alfred series and standalone battle books Azincourt and The Fort.
