Faded Coat of Blue

by Ralph Peters, Owen Parry

Genres: Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Sometimes unwittingly funny, Jones's narrative voice is a feast of fine language and well-rendered dialectical precision. --Publishers Weekly

A New York Times bestseller

Won the Herodotus Award for historical fiction, sponsored by the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society

Abel Jones, a Welsh immigrant and Union army enlistee, investigates the death of Anthony Fowler, a young volunteer captain whose murder is blamed on the Confederates

Jones pursues the blood of the battlefield through the intrigues of Washington, D.C., where evil and good intertwine

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Print pages: 302