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1) The cruiser
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"Newly-promoted to Captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's disgraced skipper and deploy on a secret mission--Operation Stellar Shield--which will take his ship and crew into the dangerous waters bordering the Middle East....
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"Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo Island, is threatened when he's called home to testify before Congress. There, he must defend his controversial decision to prevent a massive retaliatory missile attack by Israel against civilian targets in the Mideast. Shaken by the near-end of his career, Lenson returns to command uncertain of his...
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 18
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2018.
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English
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"The war against China turns dire, as the United States struggles to survive in this gripping thriller featuring Navy commander Dan Lenson"--
5) Korea Strait
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 10
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2007.
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Overseeing a major international naval exercise with the participation of several friendly nations, Commander Dan Lenson witnesses the unraveling of long-standing alliances that eventually leads to a world-shattering confrontation between North and SouthKorea.
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[2017]
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Admiral Dan Lenson, commanding a combined U.S.-South Korea naval hunter-killer force, and Commander Cheryl Staurulakis of the USS Savo Island, fight to hold the central Pacific to pave the way for an Allied counteroffensive. Meanwhile, SEAL operator Teddy Oberg escapes from a hellish Chinese POW camp, trekking through desolate mountains toward what he hopes will be freedom. Hector Ramos, an unwilling recruit, learns the Marine Corps has an ethos...
7) Tomahawk
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A thriller on the development of the Tomahawk nuclear-tipped missile, whose protagonist is Dan Lenson of the U.S. Navy. His life is thrown in turmoil when his peace-activist girlfriend is murdered by Chinese spies, seeking missile secrets.
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 16
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English
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"As the U.S. Navy struggles to hold Taiwan, Korea, and Japan against a massive Chinese offensive, USS Savo Island, captained by Dan Lenson, must contend with a fractured crew under attack from an unknown assailant aboard their own ship while facing missile launches from above and below the sea's surface"--
9) The circle
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Dan Lenson goes aboard The Ryan as a junior officer during the Vietnam War. The ship must track a Russian submarine carrying nuclear weapons and in the end Lenson must face a naval inquiry into the Ryan's fate.
10) China Sea
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 6
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2000.
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Dan Lenson, career Navyman, takes his ship Gaddis east to operate against modern pirates preying on commercial shipping in the South China Sea and is beset by a mutinous crew, a murderous shipmate, and an approaching typhoon.
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2013.
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After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard's career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins. With nothing left to lose, Pollard, descendant of a Nantucket captain whose ship was sunk by a rogue whale, accepts an offer to join anti-whaling activists on a round-the-world racing yacht as the resident scientist, to sail from Argentina to the stormy Antarctic Sea. There they'll shadow, harass, and expose the Japanese fleet,...
13) The med
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 1
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English
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A powerful and fast-moving tale of the Navy-Marine Corps team in action on a dangerous mission in the volatile astern Mediterranean. Task Force 61--carrying tanks, aircraft, and over 5000 marines--steams toward Syria with deadly intent. Their mission: rescue 100 hostages from a terrorist stronghold--alive.
14) The passage
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 4
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1995.
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A Navy lieutenant attempts to fix the failure-prone combat system of a ship in Cuban waters amid a massive refugee boatlift
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Civil War at sea volume 2
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[2003]
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A daring coup puts Ker Custis Claiborne in command of the most dangerous raider ever to range from Brazil to Boston, but the bloodiest battle is yet to come. --- [Excerpt from back cover.]
16) The gulf
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 2
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[1990]
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A U.S. destroyer is hit by an Iranian missile in the Persian Gulf. A conflict seems inevitable.
17) The weapon
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 11
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2008.
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Struggling to obtain the plans for a new Russian nuclear warhead, Navy commander Dan Lenson and his team are betrayed and barely escape with their lives, a situation that prompts an even more dangerous attempt to steal the weapon off of an Iranian submarine.
18) The command
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 8
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[2004]
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English
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Assuming the command of the first Navy warship operated by a fully integrated male and female crew, Dan Lenson journeys to the Persian Gulf to intercept a smuggling operation and prevent a terrorist attack. By the author of Black Storm.
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