An Honorable War
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The Honor Series of Naval Fiction (in order of publication)
At the Edge of Honor. Winner of the Florida Historical Society’s 2003 Patrick Smith Award for Best Florida Fiction. This nationally acclaimed naval Civil War novel introduces U.S. Navy officer Peter Wake, who in 1863 battles the enemy in Florida and social taboos in Key West when he falls in love with the daughter of a Confederate zealot.
Point of Honor. Received the 2003 John Esten Cooke Best Work in Southern Fiction Literary Award. In 1864 Wake searches for army deserters in the Dry Tortugas and finds an old nemesis in Mexico.
Honorable Mention. In 1865 Wake chases a strange vessel off Cuba, liberates an escaping slave ship, and confronts the enemy’s most powerful ocean warship in Havana’s harbor.
A Dishonorable Few. In 1869 Wake heads to turbulent Central America to face a former American naval officer turned renegade mercenary.
An Affair of Honor. In 1873 Wake runs afoul of the Royal Navy in Antigua and becomes embroiled in a Spanish civil war.
A Different Kind of Honor. Received the American Library Association’s 2008 W.Y. Boyd Excellence in Military Fiction Literary Award. On assignment in 1879, Wake witnesses history’s first battle between ocean-going ironclads and runs for his life in the Catacombs of the Dead in Lima.
The Honored Dead. On what at first appears to be a simple mission in French Indochina in 1883, Wake encounters opium warlords, Chinese-Malay pirates, and French gangsters.
The Darkest Shade of Honor. It’s 1886 and Wake meets rising politico Theodore Roosevelt, befriends José Martí, and is engulfed in the most catastrophic event in Key West history.
Honor Bound. In 1888 Wake travels deep into the jungles of Haiti to discover the hidden lair of an anarchist group planning to wreak havoc around the world—unless he stops it.
Honorable Lies. In September 1888, Peter Wake has five days to rescue his two captured operatives from a dungeon in Spanish-Colonial Havana.
Honors Rendered. Peter Wake is sent in 1889 to the South Pacific to avert a war with the Germans.
The Assassin’s Honor. With command of a new warship in 1892 and the love of a fascinating lady, Wake is finally happy—that is, until he is ordered to
prevent an assassination.
An Honorable War. Politics, love, and war swirl around Captain Peter Wake (USN) in Havana when the USS Maine explodes on a quiet evening in February, 1898.