Silver Medal Florida Book Awards Popular Fiction13th in the Honor Series of Naval>/b> 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. < < Previous in seriesSee all of the books in this series
