Honorable War

An Honorable War takes the reader on a journey of passion and drama that history often overlooks. With the Spanish-American war as a backdrop, Robert Macomber weaves a great story of not only honor, but action and love. —James O. Born, best-selling author

Macomber's delicious storytelling—a combination of riddles, action on the sea and ashore, well-drawn characters, and exotic locations—is a praiseworthy entry in the naval fiction genre. His rip-roaring narrative is engaging, while chronicling a consequential period in American history.

My advice is to sign on early and set sail with Peter Wake for both solid historical context and exciting sea stories!

At last we have an American character the equivalent of Hornblower or Aubrey.

Macomber is the O'Brian of the Caribbean.

The Peter Wake novels are more than just gripping stories about life at sea—they offer a carefully rendered, historically accurate imagining of America's naval history in the second half of the 19th century.

Macomber is today's foremost practitioner of a fascinating subgenre—historical fiction of the nautical variety. Building his series on the imagined autobiography of Peter Wake, he's given readers a vivid, multi-dimensional hero. Macomber makes the remarkable times he portrays glow. . . . History comes alive.

Robert Macomber writes well and inspiringly so—giving voice to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps and its officers and enlisted men (ratings) now lost to memory. . . . Does Wake work? Yes, in many ways he captures the essential—which is, no doubt, why he has so many followers on both sides of the Pacific and Atlantic.