Tales of the Modern Navy
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1. The med
2. The gulf
3. The circle
4. The passage
5. Tomahawk
6. China Sea
7. Black storm
8. The command
9. The threat
10. Korea Strait
11. The weapon
12. The crisis: a Dan Lenson novel
13. The towers: a Dan Lenson novel of 9/11
14. The cruiser
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Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Newly-promoted to Captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's disgraced skipper and deploy on a secret mission--Operation Stellar Shield--which will take his ship and crew into the dangerous waters bordering the Middle East....
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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...
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"As the United States's computer, satellite, and financial networks are ravaged by coordinated digital attacks, China and its associated powers begin to roll up and intimidate American allies, launching invasions of India, Taiwan, South Korea, and Okinawa. USS Savo Island, captained by Dan Lenson, is one of the few forces left in its way. With a fractured crew under attack from an unknown assailant aboard their own ship, and facing missile launches...
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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World War with China explodes in Hunter Killer, David Poyer's dramatic new thriller. The United States stands nearly alone in its determination to fight, rather than give into the expansionist demands of the aggressive new Peoples Empire. The naval and air forces of the Associated Powers China, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea have used advanced technology and tactical nuclear weapons to devastate America's fleet in the Pacific, while its massive army...
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Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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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...
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Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"World War III is over... or is it? Superpowers race to fill the postwar power vacuum in this page-turning thriller, the next in the Dan Lenson series. In the next installment of David Poyer's critically-acclaimed series about war with China, mutual exhaustion after a massive nuclear exchange is giving way to a Violent Peace. While Admiral Dan Lenson motorcycles across a post-Armageddon US in search of his missing daughter, his wife Blair Titus lands...
21. Arctic Sea
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Series Volume:
21.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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...
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Series Volume:
22.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"In his final tour of duty after a remarkable career at sea, Dan Lenson is appointed Superintendent of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He begins at a difficult time: Congress is cutting military budgets in the wake of the devastating world war with China, calls for radical reform are upending traditions, and Dan himself faces legal jeopardy for his actions during the war. And when a Category 5 hurricane threatens to overwhelm the coast, Dan must...