David Poyer
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"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...
5) The Academy
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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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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.
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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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"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...
10) Black storm
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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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"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...
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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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"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...
19) Louisiana blue
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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.