David Poyer Books in Order

Set in a 1960s Pennsylvania town, The Hill follows a sensitive, disabled teenager whose world of high school sports, crushes, and classroom tensions is upended by a forbidden student teacher affair that tears his community and his loyalties in half.

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.

This nonfiction collection gathers true stories of Naval Academy graduates from the Civil War through the War on Terror, highlighting acts of courage, moral risk, and quiet persistence in battles, disasters, and moments of tension far from any classroom or parade ground.

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.

Primate behaviorist Sara Pollard joins a small activist crew aboard yacht Black Anemone to harass Antarctic whaling ships, but brutal seas, clashing agendas, and a massive, seemingly vengeful whale turn the voyage into a test of seamanship, conviction, and survival.

Based on interviews conducted in the late twentieth century, this oral history lets eight elderly residents of North Carolina's Outer Banks recall childhood, storms, shipwrecks, wars, love, loss, and faith on a string of once isolated barrier islands.

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.

Neurosurgeon Jack Scales buys a sailboat to reconnect with his uneasy family on a voyage to Bermuda, but storms, his son's mental illness, and a desperate gang of smugglers turn the cruise into a nightmarish struggle for control of the boat and their lives.

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.

Centered on the famous clash between Union ironclad Monitor and the Confederate ship rebuilt from Merrimack's hull, this novel follows engineer Theo Hubbard, Catherine Claiborne, escaped slave Hanks, and other characters as emerging technology, espionage, and siege warfare reshape their loyalties and futures.

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.

After leaving the U.S. Navy for the Confederate cause, Ker Custis Claiborne serves on raiders that burn and sink Union commerce, eventually commanding the swift CSS Maryland on a far ranging cruise that pits him against blockade runners, enemy cruisers, and his own doubts.

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.

In 1861, wealthy young Eli Eaker joins the Union Navy to escape an arranged marriage, serving aboard the sloop Owanee under Virginia born officer Ker Claiborne as Fort Sumter falls and both men face wrenching choices about loyalty, family, and the coming war at sea.

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.

Set in Depression era Hemlock County, this novel follows oilfield worker W.T. Halvorsen, labor organizers, and townspeople as a deadly drilling accident ignites strikes, company resistance, and violent confrontations that lay bare the region's class divisions and the costs of industrial progress.

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.

Trying to help the widow of a former SEAL teammate, diver Tiller Galloway moves to Florida, learns high risk cave diving, and uncovers links between his friend's death, a money laundering scheme for a Colombian cartel, and a wealthy landowner exploiting a vast underground aquifer.

In present day Hemlock County, new natural gas wells bring money and menace as frozen bodies appear in the woods. Old hunter W.T. Halvorsen, determined girl Becky Benning, and physician Leah Friedman hunt a human killer while a reintroduced wolf pack fights to survive.

In the final months of World War Two, young naval lieutenant John F. Kennedy is assigned to President Roosevelt's staff to investigate a rumored assassination plot, teaming with movie star Lauren Wolfe as they race to stop foreign agents and a hidden traitor at Warm Springs.

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.

On the Louisiana Gulf coast, ex con diver Tiller Galloway takes a lucrative job in the offshore oilfields, enduring cramped saturation chambers and deep dives until he discovers dangerous damage to a pipeline and faces ruthless pressure to lie about the looming environmental disaster.

Dragged into court in chains, aging Hemlock County oilfield worker W.T. Halvorsen tells a jury how a powerful company dumped toxic waste, corrupted local institutions, and left vulnerable residents to sicken and die, turning his quiet life into a bitter fight for justice.

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.

After his boat and small dive business are destroyed, parolee Tiller Galloway reluctantly agrees to work again for drug lord Juan the Baptist, leading a perilous four hundred foot dive near Green Turtle Cay to recover a lost cocaine cargo amid treachery and island politics.

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.

Working off North Carolina's Graveyard of the Atlantic, hard drinking salvage diver and ex convict Tiller Galloway is hired to find a long sunk German U boat rumored to hold Nazi gold, drawing his wary parole officer and deadly modern criminals into a dangerous deep water hunt.

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.

On the first day of buck season in remote Hemlock County, reclusive hunter W.T. Halvorsen finds a boy shot dead in the snow, sending the boy's father and later his lover into the blizzard darkened hills on a relentless, increasingly violent search for the killer.

In the year 2110 a vast global corporation known simply as the Bank owns almost everything and assigns every job, except to shabby freelance poet Monaghan Burlew, whose stubborn refusal to join the credit system unexpectedly makes him central to Earth's survival.

At the U.S. Naval Academy, meek plebe Philo T. McGiffin suffers relentless hazing under the shadow of his legendary prankster namesake, slowly learning to stand up for himself and to twist the system in ways that would have pleased the original Philo.

Years after a mysterious Great Dying wipes out every air breathing animal, a handful of people survive in an undersea research station and a returning submarine, then confront unnervingly intelligent deep sea predators as they venture south to discover who or what reshaped the planet.

This early science fiction thriller imagines the American Civil War breaking out again in a contemporary United States, using a modern version of the Battle of Shiloh to explore how ordinary soldiers, politicians, and citizens might respond if the country split along old lines.

In this speculative adventure, a mixed band of entrepreneurs, mercenaries, and idealists seize a stretch of Antarctica to found a new nation, using advanced technology to survive the brutal climate and then fighting powerful governments and corporations that want their icy prize back.