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Winter in the Heart 1 review
David Poyer
Tor Books, 1993
Great read - not really a courtroom thriller
Synopsis: The story of a small Pennsylvania oil town that has seen its better days and some of the unique characters that come together to expose a devious plan to dump toxic wastes into the surrounding countryside.
My review: This is a great read. It is advertised as a courtroom thriller but that is just as accurate as saying the movie "The Princess Bride" is a childhood bedtime story. True, ...
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Bahamas Blue4 reviews
David Poyer
St Martins Pr, 1991
Excellent Reading
This book is a great book for kid's age 14 and up. I say this because I dispise reading, and this book just made me stop everything and start reading. For anybody who can't sit and read a book this one work's. Gauranteed to get your attention! I am a 18 year old male!
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The Med 9 reviews
David Poyer
St. Martin's Press, 1993
Authentic characters
I'm not surprised that Poyer's sea novels are required reading in the U.S. Naval Academy's Literature of the Sea course. Although I myself am not ex-navy, its easy to see that Poyer's sea noverls -- and certainly The Med -- realistically depict the difficult choices that a Naval officer can find himself making. The Med forces its protagonist, Lt. (j.g.) Lenson, to choose between what's right ...
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Black storm (Tales of the modern Navy)16 reviews
David Poyer
St. Martin's Press, 2002
A big Book about small unit action
In the days prior to commencement of the ground war in Iraq during the first Gulf War, allied intelligence comes across a possible WMD weapon system called Flying Rocks. A hastily assembled team is inserted by helicopter and then moves over land to Baghdad. I read the Publisher's Weekly blurb, and I'm not quite sure what they are complaining about. BLACK STORM and CHINA SEA are amongst Poyer's ...
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The Return of Philo T. McGiffin8 reviews
David Poyer
St Martins Pr, 1983
Philo McGiffin-A great book!
For those of us who will never attend a service academy, books such as "Return of Philo McGiffin" give us a glimpse of what it takes to get through these tough institutions. They are colleges in one sense but as a character in the book says "this is your first duty assignment in the Navy!" For anyone thinking about Annapolis or who has a friend or relation who will attend, this book is a must ...
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As the Wolf Loves Winter4 reviews
David Poyer
Forge, 1996
A great read for a cold winter weekend!
Wow. I just finished reading this book during a subzero Midwestern winter, and I believe that was the best time to read it. The cold leaps off the pages and gets into your bones, just like it does to the characters in the book. You're reading along very nicely, understanding the plot and the players in it, when WHAM! A startling announcement at a community meeting throws you a curve. An ...
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Down to a Sunless Sea: A Tiller Galloway Thriller11 reviews
David Poyer
St Martins Pr, 1996
Spell binding diving thriller
As a Clive Cussler/ Dirk Pitt fan, I gladly welcome Tiller Galloway to my library. I couldn't put this book down (and donated it to the dive shop in Truk). This is a must read, action thriller. I am not a cave diver, so I can't judge how "hokie" some of it may be. Definitely a fun read! StrongDiver
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Winter Light1 review
David Poyer
Forge Books, 2001
Warning
"Dead of Winter" is not in this book. "Winter in the Heart" is.
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Thunder on the Mountain2 reviews
David Poyer
Forge, 1999
A highly significant novel about a significant time.
Poyer has written his best novel to date, and I've read almost all of the twenty published. Set in the Northwestern Pennsylvania oil fields during the great labor conflicts of the Thirties, it details the struggles of the working man as well as the dilemmas facing management during the development of organized labor. The characters are finely drawn and the action and the suspense continues ...
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The Circle23 reviews
David Poyer
SmP, 1993
Excellent Book
I have read many naval adventure books - this is one of the best. The characters are richly developed, and the contrast in background and philosophies among the officers creates very interesting, realistic, and compelling tension. The challenges that a newly minted ensign faces in dealing with crusty enlisted men, both good and bad, as well as the challenges of a difficult assignment in an old ...
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Fire on the Waters : A Novel of the Civil War at Sea 22 reviews
David Poyer
Simon & Schuster, 2003
Very enjoyable -- annoying quotes
The story and characters are brilliant, and evoke the time in a way that connects with modern readers. However, Poyer has taken it on himself to use long dashes "--" instead of quotation marks. This is something that I couldn't get used to, in part because there is no mark to indicate the END of a quote. --Go below, Eli said. The first time I read a line like this, I think that it's someone ...
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The Gulf (Dan Lenson Novels)9 reviews
David Poyer
St Martins Pr, 1990
an ode to the small ship
This is the first novel by David Poyer I have read, and I must say I enjoyed it. A great work of military fiction, the stars of this novel are those who serve on the "small ships," the destroyers, frigates, and minesweepers that often do not get into the headlines, ships that perform vital duties in war and in peace for the US Navy. While aircraft carriers (as in the Stephen Coonts novels) or ...
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Hatteras Blue3 reviews
David Poyer
New English Library Ltd, 1991
Tiller Galloway Smokes Dirk Pitt Any Day
An author that actually knows something about diving is rare. One of that category that can actually spin a yarn is a gem. This is the best diving book I've read. It's mostly technically accurate, and the highly fallible leading man is more believable than your usual Roger Ramjet hero type. I highly recommend the entire series.
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The Only Thing to Fear1 review
David Poyer
Severn House Publishers, 1995
JFK in the Twilight Zone
I've read several of Poyer's other books, and greatly enjoy the Tiller Galloway series, and his Dan Lenson series to a lesser extent. This book came as a total surprise; it's nothing like his other works. It's a "what if" book about John Kennedy: what if he had come home from the war, and been assigned to head off an assassination attempt on FDR's life? To a great extent, the author uses real ...
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Korea Strait (Dan Lenson Novels)10 reviews
David Poyer
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008
Korea Strait review
Poyer strikes another home run with this latest thriller set in the Eastern Sea between Korea and Japan. Commander Dan Lenson acting as a TAC officer finds himself once again in the center of intrigue and action, cut off from all communication aboard a ROK flag ship. If you are looking for a real page turner, military intrigue and a throughly captivating protagonist in Cmdr. Lenson, you will ...
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The Threat5 reviews
David Poyer
Blackstone Audiobooks, 2006
A really great read!
This is easily the best Lenson story in the entire saga. I got the book and read it in a day and a half. I was riveted. The action was
great, moving along constantly. It literally had me on the edge of my seat. Character development was super. As was the descriptiveness of it. I could see myself there. I also developed an extreme dislike for some of the characters. If that is what it is like in ...
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A Country of Our Own : A Novel of the Civil War at Sea5 reviews
David Poyer
Simon & Schuster, 2003
A Country of Their Own by David Poyer
Excellent novel about the Civil War at Sea. David Poyer's research and knowledge, coupled with his ability to capture personalities and frame events is unmatched. I've been in the Navy for 38 years, and have never found a better writer about issues relating to the Sea.
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The Command 9 reviews
David Poyer, 2004
Great Lenson novel
In "Command" DC Poyer has finally elevated Dan Lenson - the luckless but never feckless USN Career officer-hero of his books - to a genuine command. Previoulsy, Lenson had near commands of other ships and, in "China Sea", center-seated an obsolete destroyer on a covert sea war against modern-day pirates of the Pacific. In "Command", it's 1992, and Lenson masters a Tomahawk-armed missile ...
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Stepfather Bank1 review
David Poyer
St. Martin's Press, 1988
The bank owns the world and everyone on it except one man.
This book explores a potential future of earth that is has been purchased by a bank. In the 120 years it takes the bank to purchase everything it institutes vast changes in the way we live our lives. We literally become indebted to the bank from the age of 18. The bank tells us where to live, whom to marry, and delivers our babies to the front door. The one person on the planet who is not ...
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China Sea26 reviews
St. Martin's Press, 2000
DAN LENSON NOVELS SATISFY ADVENTURERS
David Poyer writes wonderful books and the tradition continues with China Sea. Imagine hero Dan Lenson on his first command battling a part Pakistani crew who have their own way of doing things including primitive gunnery drills in an age of Tomahawk cruise missile strikes. There is also a murderer on board Lensons Knox class destroyer. Some people might think that this makes the American Navy ...
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