Bob is one of my favorite Author

Bob is one of my favorite authors, a wonderful Naval Historian, his books take you back to the "Old Florida" as if you were there.

This seventh novel of the award-winning Honor Series finds Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake, Office of Naval Intelligence, aboard a riverboat on the Mekong River, in 1883 French Indo-China. The mission sounded simple in Washington: deliver the American president’s reply to a secret naval offer from the king of Cambodia, while assessing the region’s political-military situation. Wake figures it’ll take two more weeks and he’ll be homeward bound.

Six months later, after nearly dying at the hands of opium warlords, Chinese-Malay pirates, and French gangsters; after suffering starvation at sea, nearly falling in love with a beautiful widow, surviving a typhoon, being marooned on a beach, and enduring a horrific full-scale battle—Wake is still there. Exhausted, frustrated, and scared, he and his motley band of companions, can now testify that nothing is simple in the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Empire of Viet Nam.

This story illuminates the beginning of the bloody cultural clash that lasted for the next hundred years in Southeast Asia, with each side determined to avenge their honored dead.

In addition, there is a huge surprise at the very beginning of this novel, one that will please and intrigue long time and new readers alike, kindling a mystery it may take years to solve. All in all, this was the most fascinating, and dangerous, novel yet for me to research and write, compelling me to journey by riverboat , from the Delta country in Vietnam, far up the Mekong River, into the interior of Cambodia. My trek echoed the journey Wake made himself, one-hundred and twenty-six years ago, almost to the day of the book's release. Just as with Peter Wake, it changed my life forever.

And I am extremely honored to receive the accolade displayed below, from a man who knows a thing or two about naval intelligence, and missions on distant stations, after three long decades of service to this country.

"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 technological, political, and cultural change."

Admiral James Stavridis, USN