Dec 22, 2017mammothhawk229e rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Character have similar flaws as her southern peers: brash, impetuous & overconfident.
However, she used her brain & listened to other people's advice to slowly build up a spy network to help union soldiers escape & give President Lincoln what the Confederate leaders were thinking.
Very good Civil war story on Virginia home-front on starvation, inflation & Confederate government acting like a parasite.
Confederate was too much lion, not enough fox using Machiavelli metaphor.
Short, but not dry novel.
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