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The Towers
by
David Poyer
After surviving the attacks onSeptember 11, 2001, Dan Lenson findshimself quickly drawn intoa covert SEAL team in searchof the terroristsresponsible. Their mission: kill Osama Bin Laden.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Commander Dan Lenson is visiting the Pentagon, and his wife is at a job interview at the World Trade Center. In the action-packed scenes that follow,...more
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Commander Dan Lenson is visiting the Pentagon, and his wife is at a job interview at the World Trade Center. In the action-packed scenes that follow,...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
August 30th 2011
by St. Martin's Press
(first published August 2011)
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I am a great fan of David Poyer and his Dan Lenson naval novels. "The Towers" is a bit different than the rest. Poyer places Dan Lenson and his wife in the very heart of the terrorist attacks and Lenson himself as part of the retaliation against the terrorists in Afghanistan. But, Commander Lenson's story occupies only about a third of the book, the other two-thirds involve two other main characters and their roles in the anti-terrorist strikes. The most compelling of these stories revolves arou...more
Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Navy Commander Dan Lenson, having just been passed over for promotion to Captain, is heading for an interview at the Pentagon, expecting that it will essentially be the end of his military career. At the same time his wife Blair Titus, a former Under-Secretary of Defense, is flying to New York City for an interview at the World Trade Center. Each is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time when the terrorists fly their planes into the Pentagon and W...more
There are a number of Dan Lenson books 912 or 13). The series takes him from a young naval officer to a highly-decorated but undervalued Commander on the brink of retirement. This book's action centers on the obvious towers of the World Trade Center (his wife, Blair Titus, is badly injured at the site) and the Pentagon (where Lenson is damaged while helping others to escape). The result of the terroristic attack gives Lenson's career a new lease on life (and invigorates Navy Seal Tedd Oldberg's...more
Gosh, this guy is a good author! He captures war, and politics, and those who fight with profound realism. And the frustrations of the beauracacy which hampers those on the front lines of battle.
May 15, 2013
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Shelves:
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May 31, 2012
Red Steele
marked it as to-read
May 29, 2012
Saul
marked it as to-read
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DAVID CHARLES POYER was born in DuBois, PA in 1949. He grew up in Brockway, Emlenton, and Bradford, in western Pennsylvania, and graduated from Bradford Area High School in 1967. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1971, and later received a master's degree from George Washington University.
Poyer's active and reserve naval service included sea duty in the Atlantic, Mediterran...more
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