David Poyer
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The Med (Dan Lenson, #1)
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1988
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The Circle (Dan Lenson, #3)
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1992
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Tomahawk (Dan Lenson, #5)
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1998
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The Gulf (Dan Lenson, #2)
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1990
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The Passage (Dan Lenson, #4)
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1994
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China Sea (Dan Lenson, #6)
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2000
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Hunter Killer: The War with China: The Battle for the Central Pacific (Dan Lenson #17)
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2017
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Onslaught: The War with China--the Opening Battle (Dan Lenson, #16)
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2016
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The Command (Dan Lenson, #8)
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2004
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The Cruiser (Dan Lenson, #14)
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2014
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Read in two days. Well crafted. A bit like GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL, but more narrowly focused on microbes and their influence on history. Entertaining; obviously meant for a general, but well informed, audience. Published in 2007 but already feels a bi ...more | |
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Expected, I guess, more than I got, since the title was sensational. A great villain; good (but of course very dated) details on French justice system and how to scam people for money circa 1830. But a lot of that I eventually defaulted to skipping, ...more | |
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Just a beautifully observed book. I will assign it to my students to teach how to use settings to convey mood! I really want to see so many places she describes, like the cavelike warrens that used to be churches and monasteries. | |
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Not too much new here. Occasional items of interest, especially from Gen Mattis. Did not seem quite as thorough as W's previous book. Interviews with Trump himself seemed circular and repetitive, with Woodward trying to elicit some soul-searching and ...more | |
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After reading all Philip Kerr's and Volker Kutscher's detective novels about Berlin in the 1920's and 30's, thought I would give Rabb a try. Started with the first in his Berlin Trilogy, ROSA, about serial killings in Berlin linked to the Thule Socie ...more | |
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First Balzac I have read in a long time. I see why he's the master of the realistic novel. Shattering, once you adapt to the much slower pace and telling-rather-than-showing characteristic of early 19th-century fiction. A young man goes to Paris from ...more | |
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“Not that he cared. He’d given up ambition long ago. No, he was here because he wanted to be, and because the Navy, once in a long while, needed someone who cared more about being right than being an admiral.”
― The Gulf
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