An Honorable War: The Spanish-American War Begins (Honor Series)

Silver Medal Florida Book Awards Popular Fiction>/b>13th in the Honor Series of Naval Historical Fiction following the career of Capt. Peter Wake

Politics, love, and war swirl around Captain Peter Wake (USN) in Havana when the USS Maine explodes on a quiet evening in February, 1898. Working with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt in the tense pre-war days, carrying out a perilous espionage mission inside Cuba, and leading a disastrous raid on the Cuban coast, Wake is in the middle of it all. This is the first of a dynamic trilogy set during the Spanish-American War in the Caribbean, when America changes forever into a global power.