Description
"There can be no better writer of modern sea adventure around today." --"Clive Cussler" "Impressive...original...convincing...compelling...moving...echoes "The Caine Mutiny."" --"Publishers Weekly" "Poyer knows what he is writing about when it comes to anything on, above, or below the water." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Not just a good tale of the sea...a thoughtful examination of the human condition, of human reactions to stress." --"Jacksonville Times-Union" DAVID POYER's sea career included service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, and Pacific. He's the author of over forty novels and works of nonfiction including the War with China series: Tipping Point, Onslaught, Hunter Killer, and Deep War. Poyer's work has been required reading in the Literature of the Sea course at the U.S. Naval Academy, along with that of Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville. He lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Features & Highlights
- For four years at Annapolis he prepared for this, pledging his youth, his ambition, and even his life. But when junior officer Dan Lenson finally gets his commission, it's an aging World War II destroyer. Now, with a mix of pride and fear, he heads into the world's most dangerous seas.As the
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- plunges into the dark waters of the Arctic Circle at the height of storm season, Lenson and the crew pursue a mysterious and menacing enemy. But he soon discovers a foe even more dangerous within the
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- advancing a shocking agenda that drives the ship closer and closer to disaster-testing Lenson's life and loyalty to their very limit.
