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Far behind the lines of the Union Army, Intelligence officer Lieutenant Garton is assigned the dangerous task of sniffing out the notorious Copperheads – a movement of Confederate sympathisers and hard men who'd like nothing more than to stage an uprising across Union states in the south.
When Garton, alone and undercover, rescues young Ginny Halstead from the clutches of several Copperheads, he becomes embroiled in something far smaller than the Civil War, but no less uncivil – a family dispute over land and gold.
Pa Silver, the local prospector, deeply rooted to his small patch of land in the Nevada hills, has been shot down by a masked bandit. Could a man like Ginny's Uncle Halstead, established in these parts, respected, prosperous, really be responsible? And if it really was he who hired out the Copperheads to kill his own niece, what's in it for him and the Confederate traitors?
It's up to Garton to join the dots.
“A classic of the genre” - Tom Casey, bestselling author of Trade Off
Denis Hughes (1917-2008) was a prolific writer who wrote a large number of science fiction and western novels. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including Ken Kester, and his many western adventures include Coyotes of the Gap, Persecution Trail and Guilty Colts.
Far behind the lines of the Union Army, Intelligence officer Lieutenant Garton is assigned the dangerous task of sniffing out the notorious Copperheads – a movement of Confederate sympathisers and hard men who'd like nothing more than to stage an uprising across Union states in the south.
When Garton, alone and undercover, rescues young Ginny Halstead from the clutches of several Copperheads, he becomes embroiled in something far smaller than the Civil War, but no less uncivil – a family dispute over land and gold.
Pa Silver, the local prospector, deeply rooted to his small patch of land in the Nevada hills, has been shot down by a masked bandit. Could a man like Ginny's Uncle Halstead, established in these parts, respected, prosperous, really be responsible? And if it really was he who hired out the Copperheads to kill his own niece, what's in it for him and the Confederate traitors?
It's up to Garton to join the dots.
“A classic of the genre” - Tom Casey, bestselling author of Trade Off
Denis Hughes (1917-2008) was a prolific writer who wrote a large number of science fiction and western novels. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including Ken Kester, and his many western adventures include Coyotes of the Gap, Persecution Trail and Guilty Colts.
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Published April 4, 2019
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Denis Hughes
96 books3 followersDenis Talbot Hughes (1917-2008) was born in London and was the son of Victorian artist Talbot Hughes. He trained as an Air Observation Pilot in WWII, but a serious crash prematurely ended his flying career. His first book, Fury Drives By Night, was published in 1948; over 80 more titles followed, published under numerous contractual pseudonyms. In addition to science fiction, he also published westerns and adventure novels. This prolific period ended when his main publisher collapsed in 1954.
From 1954, until his retirement in the 1980s, he wrote short stories for DC Thomson, specialising in WWII adventures for boys' papers including Victor, Hotspur, Warlord and Wizard.
From 1954, until his retirement in the 1980s, he wrote short stories for DC Thomson, specialising in WWII adventures for boys' papers including Victor, Hotspur, Warlord and Wizard.
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