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By Robert N. Macomber

it is the 11th novel within the award-winning Honor sequence of historic maritime fiction. January 1889. German and American naval forces are engaged in an escalating disagreement in Samoa within the South Pacific. Warships are at conflict stations. Naval reinforcements from either countries are at the means. the clicking in Berlin, Hamburg, Washington, and San Francisco is asking for nationwide honor to be defended. At any minute, open war may perhaps erupt. All it's going to take is one spark. President Grover Cleveland orders Commander Peter Wake, place of work of Naval Intelligence, to clandestinely accomplish considered one of issues: both someway hinder all-out warfare among Germany and the United States, or win it decisively on the outset to avoid wrestle from spreading around the globe. bobbing up with an admittedly makeshift plan alongside the best way, Wake enlists assistance from an not likely trio he encounters within the Pacific: a Hawaiian artillery officer, a renegade Methodist minister, and a gorgeous widow. regrettably for Wake—and unbeknownst to him—each of them has his or her personal reasons for heading to Samoa. If he fails, millions the world over will die. it's a limitation correct out of today’s headlines: while do you move the road of civilized habit to very likely keep lives? How do you reside with the results? Amidst this quandary, Wake makes a decision to hire a repulsive tactic that leads to horror for a member of his crew, anything he'll remorse for the remainder of his existence. The intrigue is as lethal because the motion during this novel, which culminates in a single of the main major occasions in Pacific—and American—naval history.

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