The Command (Dan Lenson, 8)

The Command (Dan Lenson, 8)

by David Poyer (Author)

Synopsis

Dan Lenson assumes command of USS Horn, the first United States Navy warship operated by a fully integrated male and female crew - a circumstance that brings challenges about morale, behaviour, training, and performance under fire. The Horn is deployed to the Persian Gulf and as Lenson struggles with his inexperienced crew, a team of brazenly macho SEALS joins the ship to conduct search-and-seize operations against foreign vessels attempting to smuggle arms to Iraq. But Lenson's real nightmare is brewing in Bahrain, where an American-educated Saudi terrorist is planning an explosive attack on the ship and everything it represents.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Edition: First
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Published: 08 Jun 2004

ISBN 10: 0312318367
ISBN 13: 9780312318369

Media Reviews
[An] explosive climax...the reader takes a well-informed cruise on a U.S. destroyer. Poyer knows the ship intimately. Vivid descriptions cover everything from knee knockers to combat information center, radar to computers, wardroom to enlisted quarters. Battle scenes in particular come alive with authenticity...and all that, and more, is in this latest chapter of Commander Daniel Lenson's contentious career. -Proceedings
Poyer packs story with both dense technical info and welcome local color. Unique Aisha merits a spinoff series. -Kirkus Reviews
Plows fearlessly-though with hair-raising effect on occasion-through today's stormy international and social seas...the salvos of nautical expertise also lend flavor and authenticity...the author provides believable insights into Muslim thinking...Poyer's genius for description impresses on page after page. The vividness of his scene-setting grabs you.
-Virginian-Pilot
Lovers of procedural military fiction wait for David Poyer's next installment of the career of Dan Lenson. -Roanoke Times
Author Bio
Captain David Poyer's twenty-four novels make him possibly the most popular living author of American sea fiction. His naval career included service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Pacific. The Command is the eighth book in his continuing novel-cycle of the modern Navy, following The Med, The Gulf, The Circle, The Passage, Tomahawk, China Sea, and Black Storm. He lives with his wife, novelist Lenore Hart, and their daughter on Virginia's Eastern Shore.