Robert N. Macomber

 

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I'm out at sea in the Med, the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and
the North Atlantic, from April 18th to May 28th, 2008. 
Please hold all emails until after I return home on 28 May.
Thanks!


 

 

 

A Different Kind of Honor
has been launched aboard the Queen Mary 2 in the North Atlantic!

Robert N. Macomber with Commodore Warner and the senior officers 
of Queen Mary 2 at the official launching of A Different Kind of Honor 
at Latitude 42 degrees North, Longitude 28 degrees West, on 
8 September 2007, steaming for Southhampton, England from New York City.


It’s 1879 and Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake, U.S.Navy, 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 the coast of Bolivia, has gone on to overrun Peru and controls the entire southeastern Pacific region. The American leadership in Washington, concerned over European involvement in the war and the French effort to build a Panama Canal, has sent Wake to observe not only the naval war, but the political intrigues of the region as well. 

During Wake’s dangerous mission—part naval observer, part diplomat, and part spy—he will witness history’s first battle between ocean-going ironclads, ride the world’s first deep-diving sub, face his first machine guns in combat, discover an unlikely bond with an international brotherhood, advise the French trying to build the Panama Canal, and run for his life in the Catacombs of the Dead in Lima, Peru.

And while he is away, Wake’s family back home in Washington DC copes with their own catastrophic event—one that will eventually change all of their lives forever. In the end, The War of the Pacific, where he confronts a very different kind of honor, will haunt Peter Wake for the rest of his life.

This is the sixth novel of the Honor Series and I researched it for three years, including three ocean transits of the west coast of South America and repeated visits to Chile, Peru, Ecuador, the Panama Canal, along with detailed research in Washington DC. It was absolutely fascinating to discover the background information on this little-known but important facet of world history and very exciting to bring it to light through Peter Wake's eyes. I know you'll enjoy it!


Maritime and Literary Lectures

I am currently available for presentations anywhere in North America and Europe from June 1st until December 15th, 2008. Also, in 2009, from March 1st to July 31st. If you would like me to speak with your group, please email me after 28 May 08 at macomber@robertmacomber.com and we'll figure out how to make it happen. Honorariums and expenses are based on geographic location/travel. I give talks all over the world. The thirty-one topics available include...

Historical naval subjects:

-GUERRE DE COURSE
--the Confederate Navy's global war

-THE TROPICAL WAR
--the naval Civil War in SW Florida

-THE SOUTHERNMOST WAR
--the naval Civil War in Florida

- BLOOD MONEY
--the Caribbean's (and Europe's) influence
 on the American Civil
War

-THE SWORD OF KEY WEST
--the attempt to forcibly exile Key West's 
Rebel civilians

- BLOOD MONEY
--the Caribbean's (and Europe's) influence
 on the American Civil
War

-HITTING HOME
--the Confederate naval raid on New England

-DETRITUS OF WAR
--Civil War shipwrecks in SW Florida

-THE OCEAN OUTPOST
--Key West in the Civil War

-THE PATRIOT & THE WIDOW
--a tale of Useppa Island in the Civil War

-FORGOTTEN COUSIN
--famous Confederate raider's Union cousins

 fought in Florida

-YELLOW JACK!
--how a disease disabled the East Gulf 
Blockading Squadron in 1864

-LUCKY SHIP, MYSTERIOUS DEATH
--the tale of a Union warship sunk in SW Florida

-THE LAST MAN TO DIE
--the Civil War's last great sea battle, in the 
Straits of Florida

-THE GREAT ESCAPE
--The Confederate government's escape 
through Florida

-OCEAN RAIDERS OF THE PACIFIC
--British, Confederate, and German raiders

-WAR OF THE PACIFIC
--1880--South America's great naval war that
 changed history

-BRAVE MEN & IRON TUBES
--global efforts at operational submarines, 1865-1885

-THE DARK YEARS
--the US Navy's demise from 1866 to 1890

 

General maritime subjects:

-MODERN PIRACY--where it is, the war against it, and my personal experience with it

-GROG!--a drinking story of the most famous liquor
 at sea

-SEA SHANTEYS--the music of the sea

-SAILOR TALK--the language of the sea

-FROM SAIL TO STEAM--how the advent of steam changed lives at sea

-THE GREAT ARMADA--the Spanish treasure fleet system around the world

-IRON MEN & WOODEN YACHTS--the first yachtsmen on the SW Florida coast

-WHAT'S IN A NAME--namesakes of the SW Florida coast

-TAMING THE INSIDE PASSAGE--the story of the first ICW in SW Florida

-FROM BARRELS TO CONTAINERS--how ship containerization changed the world





Literary subjects:

-PLANNING YOUR WRITING CAREER
--getting a productive career underway

-WRITING ABOUT THE SEA
--the unique culture of ships, sailors, and the sea

-MARKETING YOURSELF AND YOUR WORK
--innovative ways to get the word out

-WOW...DID I WRITE THAT?--motivation geared for school students of various levels

- GETTING INTO CHARACTER--life lessons learned researching & writing around the world

 


Get my books and collector shirts/hats sent anywhere!
 
Have signed copies of the Honor Series books, hats and t-shirts mailed anywhere in the world simply by clicking on the Ship’s Store button below and emailing your request to Jen at the store. Or you can call toll-free 1-866-456-2687.
 
We have hardcover copies of the limited edition (500) of the novel that started it all—At the Edge of Honor. Very difficult to find, but easy if you contact the Ship’s Store.
 
Here’s what all we’ve got in the Ship’s Store for you:

Books:

At the Edge of Honor novel (limited edition hardcover)

At the Edge of Honor novel (paperback)

Point of Honor novel (hardcover & paperback)

Honorable Mention novel (hardcover) 

A Dishonorable Few novel (hardcover)

An Affair of Honor novel (hardcover)

A Different Kind of Honor (hardcover)

 

Collectors T-shirts & Hats:

Point of Honor green t-shirt

A Dishonorable Few black t-shirt

“Onward and Upward” stone-color hat

An Affair of Honor sand colored t-shirt (in stock as of October 2006)       

 


By clicking on the Ship's Store button above, you can see the items and order them from Jen. Telephone Jen between 9am to 3pm (Eastern Standard Time in the USA) at the local number: 239-283-5599, or toll-free at 1-866-456-2687, or even FAX at 239-283-0532.  You can email at anytime:  locotzinc@earthlink.com.  Jen and the crew are standing by at action stations, just waiting for orders.


 


 

recipient of the
2003 Patrick D. Smith Award
for 
Best Historical Novel 
of Florida

 



~ At The Edge of Honor  ~

"Robert Macomber is a first-rate naval historian, and At the Edge of Honor proves it. The fascinating story of Florida's Civil War sea battles was unknown to me until I read this book"

- Randy Wayne White
Nationally Acclaimed Adventure/Mystery Author

"At last! Finally we have an American character the equivalent of Hornblower or Aubry, a sailor who can do the evolutions and the special missions, who makes things happen and is human besides. Even better, Peter Wake sails in the Civil War, working in a fascinating corner of that terrible conflict, with blockade runners, Spaniards, and Brits mixed up in a rollicking sea adventure. Not to be missed."

- John Prados
Nationally Acclaimed Historian and Author:




recipient of  the
2003 John Esten Cooke 
Literary Award
National Award 
with $1,000 prize 

 



~ Point of Honor ~

"Peter Wake sails under the Stars and Stripes into the maelstrom of the Civil War, off the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas, attempting to make some sense of the somber storm engulfing the North and South, while doing his duty. In Robert Macomber's Point of Honor, Peter Wake continues to emerge as an American hero worthy of his counterparts in naval fiction."

- Tall Ships Books

"As the story, begun in At the Edge of Honor,widens in this novel, it becomes richer. The characters are more complex and the action moves well. If you're a fan of 19th century naval history and/or the Civil War, this is a book for you. If not, this book could make you one." 

- Gerald T. Burke 
The Historical Novel Review

 










~ Honorable Mention ~

“This is an excellent Civil War–era novel. The characters are drawn with such skill you come to believe you know them personally, and you are right there when the action takes place—not just reading about it. Robert Macomber has produced a novel that will linger in your memory long after the last page is read. He is truly a gifted writer.”

- Patrick D. Smith
Acclaimed historical novelist

"Robert Macomber's Honorable Mention is extraordinary, a first-rate historical novel by a master of the genre. This rousing sea adventure is reminiscent of the swashbuckling yarns of Robert Louis Stevenson and Herman Wouk."

- Joe Weber
 New York Times bestselling novelist

 

"...In this book, Robert N. Macomber proves that he is not only a superb naval historian, but he can also tell a compelling, action-packed story that educates painlessly as it sails the reader along."

- Randy Wayne White
New York Times bestselling novelist

 

 






 


~ A Dishonorable Few ~

"A Dishonorable Few is the fourth in the series of novels, and author Robert Macomber continues to create entertaining and informative story lines that illuminate a tumultous period in United States naval history. ...My advice is to sign on early and set sail with Peter Wake for both solid historical context and exciting sea stories."

Vice Admiral James Stavridis, 
United States Naval Institute


"...a rousing adventure tale whose educational,and even inspirational, elements are conveyed with painless ease."

Laurie Chambliss, Book Reviewer, 
Civil War Interactive Magazine

 
"The Hornblower tradition lives on. ...The sea journeys and battles are well done, with an easy precision that tells where Macomber's strengths as a writer lie..."

Rosalind Brackenbury, Book Reviewer, 
Solares Hill Newspaper, Key West  


"Author Robert Macomber does an excellent job of building a plot and populating his novel with a host of fascinating characters. This fast-moving tale will hold your interest to the end. It has enticed me to seek out the other novels in this award-winning series."

The Ensign---magazine of the United States Power Squadrons



           




~ An Affair of Honor ~

"Bob Macomber continues to create entertaining and informative story lines that illuminate a tumultuous period in U.S. naval history. Macomber, himself an accomplished sailor, lecturer, and historian, keeps the action lively and the plotting brisk. My advice is to sign on early and set sail with Peter Wake for both solid historical context and exciting sea stories!"

Vice Admiral James Stavridis, Naval Institute Proceedings

 




 

 

 



~ A Different Kind of Honor ~

Available Fall 2007

"Naval historian Robert Macomber has no rival when it comes to painstaking research and the passion he brings to his subject.  But A Different Kind of Honor  is historical fiction on a different level. -- a thriller as good as James Patterson's best that will satisfy academics  and action junkies  equally."
-- Randy Wayne White

New York Times Best-selling Author

"A tour de force that sails through the uncharted historical waters of Latin American and the Caribbean in the late 19th century with confidence, verve, and crackling energy.  Bob Macomber's series of nautical historical fiction is full speed ahead with this sixth novel, the best yet of a superb series.  He captures well the edgy, unfinished, and fascinating story of the Americas during a time of immense tehnological, political, and cultural change."

Admiral James Stavridis, USN 

"Serving up a well salted history lesson."

Fort Myers (Florida) News-Press

 








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