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From the dust jacket:
This is the story of Belle Boyd, the most glamorous spy of the Civil War. Most of her sisters-in-espionage were fiftyish and fanatic; but not Belle. At seventeen, when her career began, she was not only pretty, but bright-spirited, witty, and possessed of a poise that was to make generals wilt in their beards. Harnett T. Kane has based this appealing and authentic historical novel on the life of the liveliest and most provocative subject he has ever written about.
Belle Boyd became a heroine early in the war when she shot a Yankee soldier who was trying to raise the Union flag over her family's house in Martinsburg, Virginia. The town was crawling with Yankee troops and Belle soon turned to spying on them and reporting, often at great danger, to the Confederates. When Martinsburg became too hot for her, she moved to Front Royal and started spying for Stonewall Jackson. Captured by the Northerners, she charmed her way out of captivity and returned through the lines, armed with a number of juicy military secrets.
Belle finally fell in love with a Yankee officer, which proved to be her undoing–but only temporarily, as you will find when you read THE SMILING REBEL, Mr. Kane has written a story filled with high suspense, unexpected twists, humor, and romance - a story about a war in which chivalry played almost as important a part as courage, and in which secrets were as deadly as bullets.
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