Honor Among Enemies

Honor Harrington, Book 6

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 19 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

Despite political foes, professional jealousies, and the scandal which drove her into exile, Capt. Honor Harrington has been offered a chance to reclaim her career as an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy. But there's a catch. She must assume command of a "squadron" of jury-rigged armed merchantmen with crew drawn from the dregs of her service and somehow stop the pirates who have taken advantage of the Havenite War to plunder the Star Kingdom's commerce.

A Note from Author David Weber
There's been some confusion—not to say, um, energetic debate, readers and fans being readers and fans—about the correct pronunciation of "Manticoran." The truth, alas, is that a stitch was dropped. An error occurred. A mistake was made… and it wasn't Audible's fault. It was mine. Before Audible recorded the very first Honor Harrington book, narrator Allyson Johnson and I not only corresponded by e-mail but actually spoke to one another by phone. She wanted to make absolutely certain she had the correct pronunciations for names, places, star nations, etc., and I tried to make certain all of her questions were answered. And so they were. Unfortunately, at some point in the process, I replied to one of her e-mails by telling her that "Man-ti-core-ahn" was pronounced "Man-tik-er-ahn." Exactly how this happened is more than I can say at this point, except to blushingly disclose that the original e-mail remains intact, confirming to all the world that it was, indeed, my fault. I can ascribe it only to a temporary mental hiccup on my part and crave your forgiveness. If, however, you must blame someone for the mix-up, that someone should be me and not Audible, who have done everything they could to get it right.

©1997 Baen (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

One of my Favorites

While I like all the books in the series, this one is probably my favorite.
Wanderman's story is easy to relate to.

Another great performance

As with all the Honorverse books...this is well worth the experience. Highly Recommend this book...as,I do the others,in the series.

excellent story with plenty of intrigue

excellent story with plenty of intrigue. this one actually followed the needed story line to get through the action scenes.

Thrilling!

Definitely a faster pace then the last book. While there was a lot of subtle intrigue in the last book, it was generally lacking in the action department. This one feels like a combination of Basilisk and The Short Victorious war.

3rd read and still amazing

Most epic space battles ever! This series is addictive and long live the Honorverse!!

Great Story

Great story and excellent narration. The narrator does a fantastic job with all the different voices.

wonderful!

I enjoyed the continuation of the story and the narrator is fansastic ! I love all the voices the narrator is able to provide!

I like honorable heroes!

This series has been very enjoyable to listen too. These books are somewhat uplifting - I guess that's the fantasy part of a galactic war - but - The good guys are good and the bad guys are bad, however, they may or may not be enemies.

There is a couple improvements that Audible could make on most of these series of books - like the honor harrington series. First, I'd like to know what book in a series I'm buying without having to research the series, book 1,2,3, etc. You can't go by audible's release date, they tend to release some of the latest books first, look at "War of Honor" in this series. The easiest way I have found to identify the series order is to Google them. Googling the series brings up the author's comments in Amazon which usually will tell you the series order.
The following is the order of the Harrington series:

1) On Basilisk Station
2) The Honor of the Queen
3) The Short Victorious War
4) Field of Dishonour
5) Flag in Exile
6) Honor among Enemies
7) In Enemy Hands
8) Echoes of Honor
9) Ashes of Victory
10) War of Honor
11) At All Costs
12) Mission of Honor (forthcoming)

My second recommendation for improvements was to do with getting comments/reviews on the books in Audible. I believe that Amazon is the parent company to Audible, so why not have Audible reviews "hot link" to the Amazon reviews of the same book, especially where there are no reviews in Audible. This would eliminate someone from having to copy the title, going to Amazon and searching their books for reviews and comments. Sorry, for straying a little, but I hope it helps.

Just a note about my high 5-star ratings - I usually only rate books that I really enjoy, hence high ratings in all my rating history. Maybe I will change in the future, but since I have so many books, maybe not. JWP

Favorite of the Series

This book is my personal favorite of the entire series. I relisten to it every couple of years and it never looses it's shine. Allyson Johnson, as with all the others books in the collection, delivers a brilliant performance.

Dependable Harrington fare

Where does Honor Among Enemies rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Above average.

Any additional comments?

This is the third book that ends with Harrington winning the day in personal combat. The plot device is a bit old by now.