Faded Coat of Blue

Author/Contributor(s):	Peters, Ralph; Parry, Owen
Publisher:	Stackpole Books
Date:	8/1/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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