PT Deutermann Books in Order

A practical handbook for Navy operations officers, covering planning, coordination, watchstanding, and the daily routines that keep a ship organized, informed, and ready to execute missions at sea.

After a fishing boat vanishes off Florida, Commander Mike Montgomery and his aging destroyer are sent to investigate. What looks like a stray report becomes a dangerous confrontation, and Navy leaders would rather keep it quiet.

During the Vietnam War, Lieutenant Brian Holcomb serves aboard a troubled guided-missile frigate where drugs, weak leadership, and combat pressure are eroding the ship from within. A coming showdown forces him into an impossible choice.

A mummified Navy lieutenant is found bolted inside the boiler of a deactivated battleship in Philadelphia. Commander Dan Collins and investigator Grace Snow follow the case toward Washington, where someone powerful wants the truth buried.

A routine murder inquiry collides with Pentagon politics when a rogue ex-SEAL assassin begins killing again. Scarred by Vietnam and built for covert work, the sweeper turns personal revenge into a widening crisis.

A canister of the bioweapon called Wet Eye vanishes inside the U.S. military system. Investigator David Stafford has to cut through lies, cover-ups, and a looming sale before the missing weapon turns into mass death.

Bridge bombings along the Mississippi send FBI leaders Hush Hanson and Carolyn Lang after a mysterious saboteur known as the Train Man. With unstable nuclear waste moving by rail, every attack raises the stakes.

When his daughter disappears in rural West Virginia, retired FBI manhunter Edward Kreiss takes the search into his own hands. What begins as a kidnapping case opens into a brutal hunt involving corrupt officials and a deadly assassin.

A midshipman's fatal fall at Annapolis looks like an accident until ugly details start surfacing. As investigators dig deeper, a gifted female midshipman, hidden tunnels, and an older crime pull the Academy into scandal.

A clandestine medical clinic burns in Washington just before a presidential inauguration, leaving behind hints of something far worse. Recalled Secret Service veteran Swamp Morgan has to decide whether this firefly is a false alarm or an attack in motion.

Two killers walk free on a technicality, then someone begins executing them on camera. Lieutenant Cam Richter has to stop the vigilantes, untangle police loyalties, and follow the trail into the dangerous North Carolina backcountry.

Asked to look into an assault in the Great Smoky Mountains, Cam Richter walks into a web of meth, corruption, and family terror. The deeper he pushes into Spider Mountain, the more the hunters start hunting him.

When one of Cam Richter's investigators dies from a baffling, radioactive poisoning, the trail points toward a nearby nuclear plant. Cam digs into what she was chasing and uncovers an inside threat with catastrophic stakes.

Trying to leave police work behind, Cam Richter buys an old North Carolina plantation and expects some peace. Instead he finds hostile pranks, a fresh stalker, and secrets tied to a Civil War massacre buried on the land.

Three Annapolis friends and the woman they all love are scattered across the Pacific war. From Guadalcanal to Leyte Gulf, their intertwined lives carry the story through friendship, rivalry, courage, and loss.

American engineer David Hall travels to Masada after a woman vanishes, carrying a private agenda of his own. Ancient history, modern politics, and a hidden search on the mountain push the story toward danger from several directions.

Late in the Pacific war, submarine commander Gar Hammond takes his boat into the deadly Bungo Suido. Japanese destroyers, mines, and narrow water turn the mission into a near-suicidal contest of patience, skill, and nerve.

Off Okinawa in 1945, USS Malloy serves on the exposed radar picket line, the fleet's first warning against kamikaze attacks. Executive officer Connie Miles must keep the ship alive as the raids intensify and his captain starts to crack.

Set in Washington, D.C., this thriller follows a case into the maze of post-9/11 security bureaucracy. Murder, secret detention, and officials who think rules are optional make for a dark, sharp look at power under pressure.

In the desperate Solomon Islands campaign, Bull Halsey gives destroyer commander Harmon Wolf room to fight his own aggressive war. Success comes fast, but so do disaster, promotion, and a reckoning at Vela Gulf.

Retired CIA officer Preston Allender is quietly pulled back in after a key Agency insider dies under suspicious circumstances. His search points toward a Chinese penetration of U.S. intelligence and a covert operation that may have turned inside out.

Submarine skipper Malachi Stormes is sent into the Pacific with a hard reputation and an unforgiving mission. Beneath the surface he faces Japanese escorts, fragile boats, and the isolating pressure of command in underwater war.

A newly winged Navy aviator enters the Pacific war as a green pilot, a true nugget. Carrier operations, combat losses, and hard-won experience force him to grow up fast in a sky where small mistakes can be fatal.

Young Navy doctor Lincoln Anderson reaches Guadalcanal expecting surgery and triage, then finds himself assigned to a PT boat squadron. From the Solomons to Leyte Gulf, he has to save lives while learning what combat really asks of him.

As USS Franklin heads back into the Pacific war, discipline is fraying and danger is everywhere. Then a devastating Japanese air attack turns the carrier into an inferno, and survival depends on leadership, luck, and sheer endurance.

In 1944, the destroyer escort USS Holland is shifted from Atlantic convoy duty to the Pacific war. Her captain and crew must learn a new battlefield fast as anti-submarine missions turn into a deadly test of nerve and command.