Silver Medal Florida Book Awards Popular Fiction13th in the Honor Series of Naval 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 prewar 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.