The Long Homecoming
(2027)(The fourth book in the Call to War series)
A novel by Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith
The war is over. The nightmares aren't. And the men who know what Captain Edward Hume is capable of are already pulling him back in.
Hume came home from Europe to a wife, a growing family, and the normal civilian life he spent years earning. He teaches the next generation of bomb disposal techs. He defuzes the occasional tricky device when the Reserves call. He should be done.
Then a summons arrives from Paris. Boniface McEwan—a shadow from Hume's war years, now rising fast inside the new Central Intelligence Agency—has an armed Russian device he intends to use for a sabotage operation, and he needs Hume to tell him whether it will do the job. What Hume walks into is not a consultation. It is a recruitment into classified covert operations—and rogue stealth missions no agency officially acknowledges—already underway before he ever boards the plane for a divided postwar Europe and, inevitably, the endless Cold War conflict in Korea.
Hume begins to question who he is really working for, whether the men beside him are allies or handlers, and whether the skills that cleared Patton's path from Normandy to Germany can carry him through a war fought in the dark — against a compromised Soviet weapon whose detonation could erase a city and poison a continent.
From Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith comes a gripping novel of duty, doubt, and the uneasy dawn of the Cold War. The Long Homecoming is a testament to the soldiers who won one war—and were asked to fight another in the shadows.
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Praise for A Call to War Series:
"Highly recommended." —Library Journal, Starred Review
‘Beautifully conceived and thoughtfully executed…’ —Charles Gomez, author of Eye of the Storm and Cuban Son Rising
‘…a trip back in time to World War II told through the eyes of one: a brave, decent, and determined soldier…’ —Sandy Kenyon, award-winning entertainment correspondent
‘These unforgettable men of The Greatest Generation are portrayed with remarkable depth and humanity…’ —Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books, cofounder of the Miami Book Fair and The Mazur Kaplan Production Company
‘One of the most fascinating accounts of bravery in World War II.’ —Tim Gray, The World War II Foundation
‘Chock full of real life events, the book will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout…’ —Catherine K. Hurd, multi-award winning writer and playwright
‘…should be on your reading list today.’ —Darcy Bonfils, multi-award winning television news executive producer
Genre: Historical
Hume came home from Europe to a wife, a growing family, and the normal civilian life he spent years earning. He teaches the next generation of bomb disposal techs. He defuzes the occasional tricky device when the Reserves call. He should be done.
Then a summons arrives from Paris. Boniface McEwan—a shadow from Hume's war years, now rising fast inside the new Central Intelligence Agency—has an armed Russian device he intends to use for a sabotage operation, and he needs Hume to tell him whether it will do the job. What Hume walks into is not a consultation. It is a recruitment into classified covert operations—and rogue stealth missions no agency officially acknowledges—already underway before he ever boards the plane for a divided postwar Europe and, inevitably, the endless Cold War conflict in Korea.
Hume begins to question who he is really working for, whether the men beside him are allies or handlers, and whether the skills that cleared Patton's path from Normandy to Germany can carry him through a war fought in the dark — against a compromised Soviet weapon whose detonation could erase a city and poison a continent.
From Elaine Hume Peake and Don Keith comes a gripping novel of duty, doubt, and the uneasy dawn of the Cold War. The Long Homecoming is a testament to the soldiers who won one war—and were asked to fight another in the shadows.
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Praise for A Call to War Series:
"Highly recommended." —Library Journal, Starred Review
‘Beautifully conceived and thoughtfully executed…’ —Charles Gomez, author of Eye of the Storm and Cuban Son Rising
‘…a trip back in time to World War II told through the eyes of one: a brave, decent, and determined soldier…’ —Sandy Kenyon, award-winning entertainment correspondent
‘These unforgettable men of The Greatest Generation are portrayed with remarkable depth and humanity…’ —Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books, cofounder of the Miami Book Fair and The Mazur Kaplan Production Company
‘One of the most fascinating accounts of bravery in World War II.’ —Tim Gray, The World War II Foundation
‘Chock full of real life events, the book will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout…’ —Catherine K. Hurd, multi-award winning writer and playwright
‘…should be on your reading list today.’ —Darcy Bonfils, multi-award winning television news executive producer
Genre: Historical