David Poyer
1) The Threat
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 9
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Dan Lenson, joins the National Security Council staff at the White House, where he runs into an unconvincing presidential assassination plot. Robert De Bari, despised by the military for his failure to serve in Vietnam and is known for a roving eye, occupies the Oval Office after the first Gulf War. Lenson assumes a host of tasks, from antidrug duty for the NSC to being the president's military aide carrying the legendary briefcase with its nuclear...
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[1995]
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A Russian assassin defects to the Germans during World War II and is taken by U-boat to Chesapeake Bay to kill President Roosevelt. The attempt is foiled by John F. Kennedy, who is no longer commanding a torpedo boat because of a bad back, but is serving as Roosevelt's bodyguard.
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Hemlock County cycle volume 3
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Environmentalist Racks Halvorsen stumbles on an illegal gas field in Pennsylvania being worked by Asian slave labor. He discovers a 12-year-old girl held prisoner because she too came across the field. Halvorsen storms the camp and rescues the girl, after which they flee to safety with the help of wolves. By the author of Winter in the Heart.
4) The Academy
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 22
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Appointed Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Dan Lenson finds himself facing legal jeopardy for his actions during the war while fighting to rescue the Academy itself when a Category 5 hurricane threatens to overwhelm the coast.
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 19
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The United States and their Allied forces struggle to survive world war with China in this compelling, realistic thriller, the next in the Dan Lenson series. World War III continues in Overthrow, the next novel in the acclaimed series featuring Admiral Dan Lenson as the Allies converge against China, North Korea, and Iran in an explosive series of events. Admiral Lenson leads Operation Rupture, the invasion of South China, in a bid to finally end...
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"After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard's career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins. With nothing left to lose, Pollard, descendant of a Nantucket captain whose ship was sunk by a rogue whale, accepts an offer to join anti-whaling activists on a round-the-world racing yacht as the resident scientist, to sail from Argentina to the stormy Antarctic Sea. There they'll shadow, harass, and expose the Japanese fleet,...
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 21
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"New threats surface in the aftermath of WWIII--this time, in the remote waters of the Arctic ... In the aftermath of a world war with China, Admiral Dan Lenson is assigned to set up a US Navy base on the rugged North Slope of Alaska, in response to Russian seabed claims that reach nearly to the US coast. Yet the current administration seems oddly reluctant to confront Russian aggression. At the same time, the International Criminal Court is accusing...
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 16
Pub. Date
2016.
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"The latest in David Poyer's acclaimed novels about the modern Navy and Marine Corps, Onslaught chronicles Dan Lenson's latest challenge as the U.S. Navy struggles to hold Taiwan, Korea, and Japan against a massive Chinese offensive. The prize: dominationof Asia and the Western Pacific. As the United States' computer, satellite, and financial networks are ravaged by coordinated digital attacks, China and its associated powers begin to roll up and...
11) Black storm
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 7
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
On the eve of America's invasion of Iraq, Lieutenant Commander Dan Lenson is ordered to prevent Saddam Hussein's threatened retaliation, but he and his recon team discover that destroying Iraq's weapons cache could unleash a greater terror.
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Hemlock County cycle volume 4
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Oil workers battle company goons in a labor conflict in 1930s Pennsylvania. It happens after five workers die in an accident at the Thunder Oil refinery, where management is penny-pinching on safety measures to increase profits. Leading the strikers is union organizer Doris Golden and driller Bill Halvorsen, their joint struggle giving birth to love.
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 14
Pub. Date
2014
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Captain Dan Lenson takes charge of a secret never-before-deployed missile defense system aboard the USS Savo Island deployed in Middle East waters.
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2015.
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"Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo Island, is threatened when he's called home to testify before Congress. There, he must defend his controversial decision to prevent a massive retaliatory missile attack by Israel against civilian targets in the Mideast. Shaken by the near-end of his career, Lenson returns to command uncertain of his...
20) Louisiana blue
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[1994]
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A thriller set amid the offshore oil rigs, featuring Tiller Galloway, a deep sea diver. Plenty of detail on the techniques of drilling and deep sea diving, including the claustrophobia which accompanies it.