Liar Temptress Soldier Spy Summary

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Review of "Liar Temptress Soldier Spy" Book written by Karen Abbott Harper Perennial, September 8, 2015. Rebecca Stewart. This report is based upon the book Liar Temptress Soldier Spy written by Karen Abbott. This book is published by Harper Perennial Publishers and is copyrighted 2015 by Karen Abbott. The book Liar Temptress Soldier Spy was written by Karen Abbott. Abbott is the New York Times bestselling author of Second City and American Rose. I found the book incredibly informational as well as entertaining. Karen Abbot writes of one of the little known aspects of the Civil War. Abbott tells the stories of four women, a widow, a socialite, an abolitionist and a farm girl all of them spies during the American Civil War. Abbott tells

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