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. For fans of Anthony Doerr and Mark Sullivan.

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.

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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

About The Authors

Elaine Hume Peake

Elaine Hume Peake was born on Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland, the site of the first United States Army Bomb Disposal testing and training base. Here her father, Captain Edward Hume learned the fundamentals of BD and became part of the first American army ordnance squads of World War II, setting the stage for the origins of the historical drama series, “The Kaboom Boys”.

Elaine studied journalism/mass communications at Towson State University leading her to a multi-year career in television news. She received multiple journalism awards including Emmys and the George Foster Peabody Award for her 9/11 coverage.

Elaine lives in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee with her husband Christopher where she writes and has been enjoying life with their precious golden retriever Lucia.

Don Keith

Don Keith is a native Alabamian and attended the University of Alabama where he received his degree in broadcast and film. He has received awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for newswriting and reporting. He is also the only person to be named Billboard Magazine "Radio Personality of the Year" in two formats, country and contemporary. Keith was a broadcast personality for over twenty years, owned his own consultancy, co-owned a Mobile, Alabama, radio station, and hosted and produced several nationally syndicated radio shows.

His first novel, "The Forever Season." received the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" award. Keith has written extensively on historical subjects including World War II, submarine warfare, and fiction, biographies, and non-fiction works on a variety of subjects. He has published more than forty books, two of which—HUNTER KILLER and COLORS OF CHARACTER—have been adapted for the screen.

Mr. Keith lives with his wife, Charlene, in Indian Springs Village, Alabama.