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Michael J. Deeb
is the author of seven novels which take place during the American Civil War known as The Drieborg Chronicles.
Duty and Honor is the first novel of The Drieborg Chronicles.
Duty Accomplished is the second novel.
In Honor Restored the character Michael returns to the life of a farmer.
In the fourth novel, The Lincoln Assassination Michael Drieborg works with a team of marshals.
The title 1860 America Moves Toward War explores the issues at stake in the 1860 elections.In The Way West, Michael Drieborg's youngest son runs away to join the US Cavalry in the West. Civil War Prisons follows the fate of both Union and Confederate captives and the quality of life they each endured during their confinement.
Mike Deeb, with co-writer Robert Lockwood Mills, has also penned two novels which explore the Kennedy Assassination and attempts to answer the question, "Did Oswald Really Act Alone?" Learn more at thekennedymurder.com.
Michael also blogs on the Website americacolonists.com, telling the stories of the freest people on earth.
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A Great Read! I couldn’t put this book down once I got started. The detail was great and I really like the main character, Michael. Knowing that so much research went into this book made it exciting to read! Anon
Wish Is My Master: The Honor of Love
by
Robert Brookover
Reviewed by Dr. Michael J. Deeb
| TITLE: | Wish Is My Master: The Honor of Love |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Brookover |
The first of a four-novel series, this opening story is set in pre-Civil War rural Georgia. Teenager George Yardley learns the life of a small farmer and leather worker from his father. Orphaned when his parents die in an epidemic, he moves to his aunt’s home in nearby Atlanta.
There he meets Amy Frey of Atlanta. She is the beautiful daughter of a very rich commodity broker, Alexander Frey. He is a confidant of Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens and Robert Toombs.
In the fall of 1860, many in the South are expecting secession followed by a military confrontation with the North if Abraham Lincoln is elected president. Georgia’s Governor Joseph Brown, Stephens and Toombs meet with Mr. Frey to seek his endorsement of secession and his promise of financial support for the new government. He promises both — but only if the Union forces a war and any Georgia secession referendum is conducted in an honest way. He asserts, “I will give not one penny to an impropriety. My honor is at stake, and I will not be part of anything that dishonors our heritage.”
Meanwhile, his daughter and George Yardley fall in love over church hymnals. Seldom able to talk face-to-face, they communicate by mail. George proposes marriage and Amy accepts. Then he moves back to his parents’ farm, abandoned since their deaths, in order to prepare it for his bride. With the skills his late father taught him, George makes a leather coat as a gift for Amy’s father.
The joy of the young couple affects all around them. But, there are dark forces lurking in Georgia. The threat of a civil war looms large. The governor is assassinated, and others favoring secession are threatened. Even a neighbor of George’s is part of a Union crowd determined to prevent Georgia’s secession by whatever means necessary.
One such threat becomes reality even as George and Amy leave their wedding reception. How that event affects their lives is to be revealed in one of the next three novels in “The Honor of Love” series. This reviewer expects that it will be worth the wait.
Reviewed by: Dr. Michael J. Deeb. Teacher of American History and author of Civil War era novels: Duty and Honor: Duty Accomplished: and Honor Restored.