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The Crisis

The Crisis( )
Author: Poyer, David
Series title:Dan Lenson Novels Ser.
ISBN:978-0-312-53248-2
Publication Date:Nov 2010
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Imprint:Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $7.99
Book Description:

Navy Commander Dan Lenson is assigned an urgent mission in a war-torn, famine-plagued country on the brink of collapse. He and his select team of SEALs, civilian analysts, and relief workers are part of an immense effort to bring food, water, and medical supplies to civilians--while the United States battles pirates from the air and sea and tries to stabilize a corrupt local government.

But Dan finds the situation much worse than intelligence suggests. A...
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Book Details
Pages:528
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Fiction / Thrillers / Terrorism
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.22 x 6.71 x 1.08 Inches
Book Weight:0.572 Pounds
Author Biography
Poyer, David (Author)
David Poyer, 1949 - Writer David Poyer was born in DuBois, Pennsylvania, in 1949, and grew up in the towns of Brockway, Emlenton, and Bradford in western Pennsylvania. He graduated from high school and then attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, graduating in 1971. He received a master's degree from George Washington University.

Poyer's active and reserve service have included sea duty in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, and Pacific and shore duty at the Pentagon, as well as other commands. He has served on the USS Bowen, Comphibron Eight, USS Charleston, USS Antrim, Surface Warfare Development Group, U.S. Atlantic Command and as Captain for the U.S. Naval Reserve at Joint Forces Command. Poyer has taught or lectured at Annapolis, Flagler College, University of Pittsburgh, Old Dominion University, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the University of North Florida. He's been a guest on PBS's "Writer to Writer" series and on Voice of America.

Poyer has written the Navy novels "The Med," "The Gulf," "The Circle," "The Passage," and "Tomahawk." He has also written the historical thriller "The Only Thing to Fear" and the comic novel of Annapolis "The Return of Philo T. McGiffin." "Thunder on the Mountain" is a historical novel set in 1936; and set in the Pennsylvania hills, are the titles "The Dead of Winter," "Winter in the Heart" and "As the Wolf Loves Winter."

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