A Different Kind of Honor

by Robert N. Macomber

Book Overview

It's 1879, and Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake, U.S.N., is on special assignment as the official American neutral naval observer to the War of the Pacific raging along the west coast of South America. Chile, having invaded Bolivia, has gone on to overrun Peru and controls the entire southeastern Pacific region. Washington, concerned over European involvement in the war and the French effort to build a canal through Panama, has sent Wake to observe local events...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156164398X
• ISBN13: 9781561643981
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Pineapple Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A true thriller - I couldn't put it down!

Robert Macomber's book A Different Kind of Honor is historically accurate and the kind of book you just don't want to put down. With every chapter, Macomber kept impressing me with the rich and accurate details of this historical novel and with an entertaining, plot-twisting narrative that kept me wondering what would happen next. Three cheers for Robert Macomber and his books!

The American Navy enters the world stage

The last half of the 19th century seemed to me to be a very weak period for a history of the US Navy. Leave out John Paul Jones, the Barbary pirates and the Confederate Navy advances and I thought the US Navy slumbered for most of the 19th century. HOWEVER, Macomber has managed very well to bring the US Navy to the world stage. The series has advanced quite spritely with "A Different Kind of Honor" being the best of the series so far. Remembering the fights between the diesel admirals and the nuclear admirals, I can well identify with the fight of the sail admirals and the Congressional penury versus the diesel admirals for a modern navy. I look forward to the next in the series.

So far, this is the best of the series

It is hard to believe that Macomber's books keep getting better, but they do! In this, the sixth novel of the series, Our LtCmdr Peter Wake has experienced the political pitfalls of Washington, the dangerous jungles of Panama, and a protracted war in the eastern Pacific, where he is officialy a neutral observer. His neutrality becomes almost impossible to maintain as the war between Chili, Bolivia, and Peru, loses its last chance for peace. Back in Washington his home life has also taken a turn for the worse. This book is impossible to put down.

A Different Kind Of Honor

This latest in the adventurer series by Robert Macomber conntinues the saga of a post civil war naval officer as he represents the USA in the naval wars of western South America in the 1870s. Enough adventure for any of us while set in a valid historical setting.

Adifferent kind of honor

Macomber has out done himself. This is the best of all the novels I could not put it down. The only problem with Robert Macomber novels are you have to wait for the next one to come out. Outstanding author holds your interest from beginning to end. Hurry up with the next adventure.