Cmdr. Peter Wake, Office of Naval Intelligence, is in French
Indochina in 1883 on a secret mission for President Chester
Arthur.
The novel opens with Wake aboard a riverboat on the Mekong
River. The mission sounded simple in Washington: deliver the
American president's reply to a confidential naval offer from the
king of Cambodia, while clandestinely assessing the region's
political and military situation. Wake figures it will take two
more weeks and he'll be homeward bound.
Six months later, after nearly dying at the hands of opium
warlords, Chinese-Malay pirates, and French gangsters; after
suffering starvation at sea, surviving a typhoon, being marooned on
a beach, and enduring a horrific full-scale battle--Wake is still
there. Exhausted, frustrated, and scared, he and his motley band of
companions can now testify that nothing is simple in the Kingdom of
Cambodia and the Empire of Vietnam.
This story illuminates the beginning of the bloody cultural
clash that lasted for the next hundred years in Southeast Asia,
with each side determined to avenge their honored dead.
"The Honored Dead" is the seventh in the award-winning Honor
Series of naval historical fiction following the life and career of
Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake from 1863 to 1907, a time when the United
States Navy helped America become a global power.
The previous novels are "At the Edge of Honor" (winner of the
Patrick D. Smith Literary Award as Best Historical Novel of
Florida), "Point of Honor "(winner of the John Esten Cooke Literary
Award for Best Work in Southern Fiction), "Honorable Mention, A
Dishonorable Few, An Affair of Honor, " and "A Different Kind of
Honor "(winner of the American Library Association's Boyd Literary
Award for Military Fiction).
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
