Dan Lenson Books in Order

In his final tour, Admiral Dan Lenson becomes Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, struggling with budget cuts, scandals, a suspicious midshipman death, and an approaching Category Five hurricane while flashbacks to his own senior year at Annapolis reveal earlier choices that shaped him.

After a brutal world war with China, Admiral Dan Lenson is sent to build a new U.S. Navy base on Alaska's North Slope while facing a war crimes investigation and an ill daughter, even as Russia prepares to test a devastating Arctic super weapon.

As nuclear war with China cools into a fragile peace, Admiral Dan Lenson crosses a shattered United States searching for his missing daughter while his wife Blair negotiates in riot torn Beijing and old allies confront new Russian and jihadist threats at sea and ashore.

With world war raging against China, North Korea, and Iran, Admiral Dan Lenson leads an Allied invasion of South China while a risky new super ship sails, Blair Titus courts rebels in Beijing, and scattered friends fight on fronts from Taiwan to Seattle and western China.

After a nuclear strike devastates Hawaii and cripples U.S. forces, Admiral Dan Lenson must salvage a Pacific counteroffensive while a Chinese artificial intelligence sabotages Allied weapons, his wife helps shape strategy in Washington, and small teams fight desperate battles from Iran to central China and Taiwan.

As war with the so called People's Empire grinds on, Admiral Dan Lenson commands a combined U.S. and South Korean force in the central Pacific while USS Savo Island fights for survival, a SEAL escapes a brutal POW camp, and new Marines are blooded ashore.

When China and its partners launch a massive offensive across Asia, Captain Dan Lenson's missile cruiser Savo Island becomes one of the few ships left to defend Taiwan, Korea, and Japan as cyber attacks, internal violence, and dwindling weapons push his crew to the edge.

Commanding the Navy's first cruiser able to shoot down ballistic missiles, Captain Dan Lenson faces political fallout for blocking an Israeli strike, investigates assaults aboard USS Savo Island, and races to stop a nuclear exchange as India and Pakistan slide toward war.

Newly promoted Captain Dan Lenson takes over USS Savo Island after the cruiser runs aground near Naples, struggling to rebuild a shaken crew and master an untested missile defense system before a tense deployment to the Persian Gulf erupts into real combat.

Visiting the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001, Commander Dan Lenson survives the terrorist attacks, then joins a covert SEAL task force sent to Afghanistan and the Pakistan borderlands with orders to hunt down Osama bin Laden and his allies.

Commander Dan Lenson leads a small Tactical Analysis Group tasked with reshaping a patrol boat squadron in the Red Sea and supporting a humanitarian intervention in famine stricken Africa, only to face a rising insurgency led by a charismatic jihadist determined to drive the Americans out.

Assigned to an experimental threat analysis team, Commander Dan Lenson tries to obtain a revolutionary Russian rocket torpedo before it reaches hostile buyers, then must steal it back by hijacking an Iranian submarine and fighting his way through the shallow Persian Gulf.

Sent to observe a multinational naval exercise near the Korean peninsula, Medal of Honor winner Dan Lenson discovers a wolfpack of unidentified submarines armed with nuclear weapons and must defy cautious superiors to stop them before they trigger a wider war.

Working on the White House military staff, Commander Dan Lenson helps target drug cartels that may be smuggling nuclear materials, uncovers a terrorist plot tied to an obscure charity, and is then made military aide carrying the nuclear football for a president many in uniform despise.

After earning the Medal of Honor in Iraq, Commander Dan Lenson takes charge of destroyer Thomas W. Horn, the first U.S. warship with a fully integrated male and female crew, and leads tense search and seizure missions in the Red Sea while a ruthless bomb maker targets his ship.

As coalition forces mass to expel Iraq from Kuwait, Dan Lenson is attached to a covert Marine recon team racing toward Baghdad to locate a mysterious weapon Saddam Hussein threatens to use against Israel, forcing him to weigh a terrible secret against the lives of his men.

Given command of a battered frigate being transferred to Pakistan, Dan Lenson inherits a sullen crew, a complex relationship with his Pakistani counterpart, and secret orders to hunt modern pirates in the South China Sea while facing mutiny, a serial killer, and an approaching typhoon.

Assigned to the troubled Tomahawk cruise missile program in Washington, divorced officer Dan Lenson falls for a peace activist, questions the nuclear strategy he serves, and becomes the target of spies, gangsters, and politicians who will kill to control or derail the weapon.

Serving as weapons officer on the Navy's newest destroyer, USS Barrett, Dan Lenson oversees a top secret combat system that soon falls prey to a malicious computer virus, while a sailor's suspicious death and a brewing scandal over the captain's private life push the crew toward mutiny.

Fresh from Annapolis, Ensign Dan Lenson reports to an overworked World War Two era destroyer sent north to test sonar in the Arctic, where brutal storms, a dangerous Soviet submarine, drug dealing sailors, and a disastrous collision force him to confront what real command demands.

As executive officer of guided missile frigate Turner Van Zandt during the tanker wars of the late Iran Iraq conflict, Dan Lenson must balance an aggressive captain's thirst for revenge with the need to protect vulnerable convoys and avoid triggering a wider regional catastrophe.

Task Force 61 steams toward Syria with thousands of Marines aboard and orders to rescue hostages from a terrorist stronghold, thrusting Dan Lenson and a cross section of sailors and Marines into a complex amphibious operation where politics, personality clashes, and combat all collide.