How long does it take to read Copperhead?
Bernard Cornwell, Francisco Rodríguez de Lecea
Copperhead by Bernard Cornwell, Francisco Rodríguez de Lecea takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Starbuck Chronicles
Previous: Rebel Next: Battle Flag
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military
