THE HONOR SERIES
Depicting thrilling highlights of the U.S. Navy’s critical role in the expansion of America from a continental country in the mid-19th century into a global power in the early 20th century.
TAKING READERS TO CUBA
It’s always a privilege to take my readers
to places I write about in my novels, like Cuba!
We’ve had two Reader Rendezvous to Havana,
and have had exciting trips to eastern Cuba
on our Spanish-American War Expeditions.
FULL NAVAL HONORS
[the 17th in the Honor Series]
WINNER OF THE PATRICK D. SMITH LITERARY AWARD
The memoirs of RADM Peter Wake, USN, steam into the twentieth century in Full Naval Honors. This final volume finds the admiral dealing with European and Japanese spies and assassins in the Pacific while on a “diplomatic” recon mission ahead of the Great White Fleet’s epic 1907-09 voyage around the world. The action continues at the beginning of World War I, as Wake clashes with a German espionage network in the Central American jungle. The reader will be at Wake’s side when he visits his friend Theodore Roosevelt’s New York home in 1918, as that family learns of their tragic war loss. Following that war, readers will learn the poignant story of Peter Wake’s final years in Key West with his beloved Maria. But Peter Wake’s story doesn’t end there, for the call of duty lives on in his descendants as they are plunged into the midst of World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the First Gulf War. Shadowy espionage, world-changing events, crucial split-second decision-making, gut-wrenching combat, tragic losses and great loves—and above all, a never-ending sense of honor and duty—they all form part of the Wake family’s character as America depends on each generation of them. Full naval honors, indeed.