
Copperhead
Edición de la obra Copperhead
| Autor | Bernard Cornwell |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Perennial |
| Fecha de publicación | 2001 |
| Lugar | New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 417 |
| ISBN-10 | 006093462X |
| LCCN | 2001021409 |
| Serie | The Nathaniel Starbuck chronicles ; · bk. 2 |
| Número de Cutter | C821c |
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.