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On a hot June day in 1904, the Russo-Japanese War is raging in
Korea and Rear Admiral Peter Wake, forty-year veteran of naval
espionage, ship combat, and guerilla wars, is in his White House
office as special assistant to President Theodore Roosevelt. The
Perdicaris Hostage Crisis in Morocco has diverted Wake from his
critical main project: obtaining Imperial Germany's 1903 revised
invasion plans against the United States. After defusing the
hostage mess, Wake and his unique team head for Hamburg and St.
Petersburg in grand style on a diplomatic mission. But that's
merely a facade for the false-flag operation to get those German
plans. Even as Wake hobnobs with Kaiser Wilhelm II and Czar
Nicholas II, he reconnects with contacts in the sordid world of
intelligence. In a perilous evening in St. Petersburg, Wake is
trapped by the dreaded Russian Okhrana into joining the Russian
fleet as a neutral observer on their 18,000-mile voyage around the
world to engage the vastly superior Japanese fleet--a certain death
sentence. Wake's subsequent trek around Europe, Africa, and Asia
leads him into the clutches of the Japanese Black Dragon Society;
the cataclysmic Battle of Tsushima, which changed world history;
the chaotic Trans-Siberian Railway and Potemkin Mutiny in the 1905
Russian Revolution; the Portsmouth Naval Station peace talks; the
1906 Nobel Peace Prize in Norway--and many different codes of
honor.
Robert Macomber's Honor series of naval fiction follows the life
and career of Peter Wake in the U.S. Navy during the tumultuous
years from 1863 to 1901. At the Edge of Honor is the first in the
series and winner of the Patrick D. Smith Literary Award as Best
Historical Novel of Florida. The year is 1863. The Civil War is
leaving its bloody trail across the nation as Peter Wake, born and
bred in the snowy North, joins the U.S. Navy as a volunteer officer
and arrives in steamy Florida for duty with the East Gulf
Blockading Squadron. The idealistic Peter Wake has handled boats
before, but he's new to the politics and illicit liaisons that war
creates among men. Assigned to the Rosalie, a tiny, armed sloop,
Captain Wake commands a group of seasoned seamen on a series of
voyages to seek and arrest Confederate blockade-runners and
sympathizers, from Florida's coastal waters through to near the
remote out-islands of the Bahamas. Wake risks his reputation when
he falls in love with Linda Donahue, whose father is a Confederate
zealot, and steals away to spend precious hours with her at her Key
West home. Their love is tested as Wake learns he must make the
ugly decisions of war even in a beautiful, tropical
paradise-decisions that take him up to the edge of honor.
In this second of Robert Macomber's historical novels of the naval
Civil War in Florida, the year is 1864 and Peter Wake, U.S.N.,
assisted by his indomitable Irish bosun, Sean Rork, is at the helm
of the schooner St. James, a larger ship than his first command in
At the Edge of Honor. Wake's remarkable ability to make things
happen continues as he searches for army deserters in the Dry
Tortugas, discovers an old nemesis during a standoff with the
French Navy on the coast of Mexico, starts a drunken tavern riot in
Key West, and confronts incompetent Federal army officers during an
invasion of upper Florida. Along the way, Wake's personal life
takes a new tack when he risks reputation for love by returning to
the arms of his forbidden sweet-heart, the daughter of a
Confederate zealot. Key West provides a unique setting for them to
prove that their love is strong enough to overcome the insanity of
the war. And through it all, even when surrounded by the swirling
confusion of danger and political intrigue, Peter Wake maintains
his dedication to balance on the point of honor.
The year is 1863. The Civil War is leaving its bloody trail across
the nation as Peter Wake, born and bred in the North, joins the
U.S. Navy and arrives in Florida for duty with the East Gulf
Blockading Squadron. Assigned to the Rosalie, a tiny, armed sloop,
Captain Wake commands a group of seasoned seamen on a series of
voyages to seek and arrest Confederate blockade-runners and
sympathizers, first in Florida's coastal waters, then in a dirty
and corrupt Havana, and finally near the remote out-islands of the
Bahamas. Wake learns he must make the ugly decisions of war even in
a beautiful, tropical paradise--decisions that take him up to the
edge of honor.
At the beginning of this fifth novel in Robert N. Macomber's
award-winning Honor Series, it's December 1873 and Lieutenant Peter
Wake is the executive officer of the USS Omaha on dreary patrol in
the West Indies. Lonely for his family, he is looking forward to
returning home to Pensacola in a few months and rekindling his
troubled marriage with Linda.
But fate has other plans for Wake. He runs afoul of the Royal
Navy in Antigua and a beautiful French woman enters his life in
Martinique. Then he's suddenly sent off on staff assignment to
Europe, where he is soon immersed in the cynical swirl of Old World
politics. Wake finds himself running for his life after getting
embroiled in a Spanish civil war. Then he gets caught up in
diplomatic intrigue among the French, Germans, and British. But his
real test comes when he and his old friend Sean Rork are sent on a
no-win mission in northern Africa.
Honorable Mention, the third volume in the award-winning "Honor"
series, covers the tumultuous end of the Civil War in Florida and
the Caribbean, from the re-election of Lincoln in 1864 to the
relocation of former Confederates to Latin America in 1866. Now in
command of the steamer U.S.S. Hunt, Lt. Peter Wake quickly plunges
into action, chasing a strange vessel during a tropical storm off
Cuba, dealing with a seductively dangerous woman during a mission
in enemy territory ashore, confronting death to liberate an
escaping slave ship, and coming face to face with the enemy's most
powerful ocean warship in Havana's harbor. Finally, in January
1866, when he tracks down a colony of former Confederates in Puerto
Rico, Wake becomes involved in a deadly twist of irony.
Honoring the Enemy is the story of how American sailors, Marines,
and soldiers landed in eastern Cuba in 1898 and, against daunting
odds, fought their way to victory. Capt. Peter Wake, USN, is a
veteran of Office of Naval Intelligence operations inside
Spanish-occupied Cuba, who describes with vivid detail his
experiences as a naval liaison ashore with the Cuban and U.S.
armies in the jungles, hospitals, headquarters, and battlefields in
the 1898 campaign to capture Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish. His
younger friend, and former superior, Theodore Roosevelt, is
included in Wake's story, as the two of them endure the hell of war
in the tropics. Wake's account of the military campaign ashore is a
window into the woeful incompetence, impressive innovations,
energy-sapping frustration, and breathtaking bravery that is always
at the heart of combat. His description of the great naval battle,
from the unique viewpoint of a prisoner onboard the most famous
Spanish warship, is an emotional rendering of how the concept of
honor can transform a hopeless cause into a noble gesture of
humanity. Honoring the Enemy is the fourteenth book in the
award-winning Honor Series of historical naval novels.
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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).
Winner of the W.Y Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military
Fiction for 2008. It's 1879 and Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake, U.S.N., is on
special assignment as the official American neutral naval observer
to the War of the Pacific raging along the west coast of South
America. Chile, having invaded Bolivia, has gone on to overrun Peru
and controls the entire southeastern Pacific region. Washington,
concerned over European involvement in the war and the French
effort to build a canal through Panama, has sent Wake to observe
local events. During Wake's dangerous mission--as naval observer,
diplomat, and spy--he will witness history's first battle between
ocean-going ironclads, ride the world's first deep-diving
submarine, face his first machine guns in combat, advise the French
trying to build the Panama Canal, and run for his life in the
Catacombs of the Dead in Lima, Peru.
This is the fourth book in the Honor series of Historical Naval
Fiction, which also includes the award-winning At the Edge of
Honor, Point of Honor, and Honorable Mention. The Civil War is
over, and now Lt. Peter Wake is hunting pirates in South America
and the Caribbean.
Winner of the John Esten Cook Literary Award for Best Work in
Southern Fiction In 1864 Wake is at the helm of a schooner, the St.
James, searching for deserters in the Dry Tortugas and off the
coast of Mexico. ?If you're a fan of nineteenth-century naval
history and/or the Civil War, this is a book for you. If not, this
book could make you one.? ? The Historical Novel Review
As part of the award-winning Honor Series of historical naval
novels, Word of Honor is the personal memoir of protagonist Peter
Wake, a veteran of espionage operations for the Office of Naval
Intelligence who also has considerable sea and combat experience.
At the beginning of this third book of the Spanish-American War
Trilogy, it is three years after the war and Wake is called in to
explain his decisions and actions in the Caribbean during the
wartime summer of 1898. As he briefs his interrogators, Wake
recalls surviving two major land battles and a climatic sea battle
near Cuba, then taking command of auxiliary cruiser Dixon, which is
manned with regular and reservist officers and men. Wake soon
tackles enemy blockade-runners, participates in the invasion of
Puerto Rico, encounters future president and war hero Theodore
Roosevelt, and pursues an elusive Spanish ocean raider on the loose
somewhere in the Caribbean.
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