- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (3 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002243091
- ISBN-13: 978-0002243094
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 665,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Copperhead was the name given to Northern sympathisers of the Confederacy, after a venomous species of North American snake. It is a name that sticks to Nathaniel Starbuck, a preacher's son who has run away from family, college and a foolish love affair, taking shelter in the Falconer legion.
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Nathaniel Starbuck is a Copperhead: a northerner fighting for the rebel South in America's Civil War.
Aided by his spymaster Allan Pinkerton, General McClellan is convinced he can lead the northerners to the gates of the rebel capital of Richmond.
Starbuck, expelled from his regiment by its bombastic founder, Washington Faulconer, Must travel a hard road before he can rejoin his comrades: through the savage prisons of Richmond, across the blood-sodden battlefields of Virginia, even into the high command of the northern army. For Starbuck has joined the shadowy war of betrayal and espionage, where nothing is certain and no may be trusted.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After reading Rebel the first book in the Starbuck Chronicles, I must confess that I was in no particular hurry to read the second. Nathanial Starbuck was a pale shadow of Richard Sharpe, lacking in depth and with motives that were not at all convincing. However Copperhead marks a return to form for Cornwell, not only does Starbuck gain a fresh depth of character and plausibility but the supporting characters are fleshed out. The battle scenes (as is usual with Cornwell)are rip-roaring. A great read! Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
A good second offering in the series, thoroughly enjoyed reading it, the Starbuck books seem to be getting a lot of poor reviews but if you take them for a lighthearded read and nothing to serious then then you will enjoy reading them.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After a slow start to the series with Rebel, Copperhead continues the story of Starbuck with a highly entertaining and very well researched account of McClellan's Peninsular campaign of 1862. Cornwell is an extremly fine writer of historical fiction and the Starbuck chronicles are second only to the Sharpe Series in terms of entertainment and an easy to get into historical account of the wars of the nineteenth century. For all fans of historical fiction i highly recommend this book and indeed, the whole of the Starbuck quartet. With action, brutal warfare, intrigue, treachery and treason, this book has everything a reader could want in a historical war book.
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