The Assassin's Honor (Volume 12) (Honor Series, 12) - Hardcover

Macomber Author Of The Multi-award-winning Honor Series, Robert N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1561647985 ISBN 13: 9781561647989

Publisher: Pineapple Press, 2015

Synopsis

12th in the award-winning Honor Series of naval historical fiction.

In December of 1892 a little-known event changed world history, and its influence can be seen in headlines today. This 12th novel of the Honor Series is woven around that event.

Commander Peter Wake, U.S.N., is finally happy. In command of a newly commissioned light cruiser in the Caribbean, he is back at sea where all real sailors belong. All his years of espionage in the more sordid corners of the world are over. Ashore, he has the sincere love of a beautiful, fascinating, exotic woman. After years as a lonely widower, he is considering marriage.

Everything changes when a man is found murdered aboard a steamer at Key West. Summoned to investigate, Wake uses his naval intelligence skills to decipher the strange clues left behind and discovers an important man will be assassinated by a foreign team of killers in eight days. But who, where, and why?

The clues lead him on a desperate voyage to save the man and stop a war. Germans in Mexico, Cuban rebels in Key West, and Spanish counter-intelligence agents in Tampa, are all part of the equation he must solve. But nothing is as it seems, and when Wake finally learns the truth, the victim is much closer than he thought—and the consequences of failure are much larger.

How far will Peter Wake go to save a life and change history? War hangs in the balance.

Time is running out.

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Robert N. Macomber is an internationally recognized, award-winning maritime writer, lecturer, and television commentator. He is the author of the acclaimed Honor Series of naval novels and is proud to have readers in ten countries. His awards include the Florida Genealogy Society's Outstanding Achievement Award for his nonfiction work on Florida's maritime history, the Patrick Smith Literary Award for Best Historical Novel of Florida (At the Edge of Honor), and the John Esten Cooke Literary Award for Best Work in Southern Fiction (Point of Honor). He is the guest author at regional and international book festivals and was named by Florida Monthly magazine as one of the 22 Most Intriguing Floridians of 2006. His sixth novel, A Different Kind of Honor, won the highest national honor in his genre: the American Library Association's 2008 W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. Each year Macomber travels approximately 15,000 sea miles around the globe, giving lectures and researching his novels.

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Gneisenau wasn’t at Havana.

Instead, she was right there in front of us, the officers on her bridge staring and pointing at our arrival. Anchored close nearby her was the large Spanish cruiser Reina Regente. I was well acquainted with that formidable ship, having been chased by her while in a stolen Spanish patrol boat in Cuba four years earlier. To add even more spice to the trouble brewing, Lieutenant Lambert reported that Chicago had German and Spanish captains’ gigs alongside her.

Obviously, old Blau was smarter than he appeared and, though he could have been in Key West only a few hours ahead of us, had wasted no time. Presumably, Reina Regente was already visiting the port. The wily German was innovative, increasing the international repercussions by using the Spanish captain as his witness while complaining to Rear Admiral Walker about my stealing his collier in Mexico. A quick glance at my executive officer showed him standing there watching the scene like the proverbial cat that ate the canary, for his nemesis―I―would soon depart the ship in disgrace once the leadership in Washington discovered what I had done. He was probably planning his promotion party.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pineapple Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1561647985
• ISBN 13: 9781561647989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400