Dan Lenson Series by David Poyer, Gary Galone

4.01 · 112 ratings
  • The Med (Dan Lenson #1)
    #1

    The Med (Dan Lenson #1)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings · published 1988

    A powerful and fast-moving tale of the Navy-Marine Corps team in action, on a dangerous mission in the volatile Eastern Mediterranean.Cloaked by the mists of dawn, 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.With realism seldom seen in military fiction, The Med is a magnificent and timely epic that brings the human drama of armed conflict compellingly to life... more

  • The Passage (Dan Lenson #4)
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    The Passage (Dan Lenson #4)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings · published 1994

    The Navy's most sophisticated destroyer, the USS Barrett carries a top-secret computer that can pilot an unmanned ship and send it into battle. As the weapons officer charged with its first mission Lieutenant Dan Lenson has a chance to make naval history.But when the system develops a sinister virus and a sailor takes his own life amid ugly allegations, Lenson finds himself caught in a web of betrayal. Now, on the treacherous Windward Passage between the U.S... more

  • China Sea (Dan Lenson #6)
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    China Sea (Dan Lenson #6)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings · published 2000

    David Poyer's cycle of modern Navy tales ranks among the finest nautical fiction of our time. With China Sea, his self-doubting protagonist Daniel V. Lenson faces for the first time the unforgiving challenge of command at sea. Ordered to relieve an alcoholic skipper, Dan finds he has inherited a damaged ship, an untrustworthy crew, and an ambiguous mission. He is to take the USS Oliver C. Gaddis, soon to become the PNS Tughril, on her final voyage to be donated to Pakistan... more

  • Black Storm (Dan Lenson #7)
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    Black Storm (Dan Lenson #7)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings · published 2002

    On the eve of America's invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein has threatened to attack Tel Aviv if a single tank enters his country. Though the US has no intelligence on the type or location of the weapon, Naval Lieutenant-Commander Lenson and a reconnaissance team are ordered to eliminate the threat.

  • The Threat (Dan Lenson #9)
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    The Threat (Dan Lenson #9)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings · published 2006

    Medal of Honor recipient Dan Lenson has just been assigned to the White House military staff--a dubious honor, serving a president the Joint Chiefs hate more than any other in modern history. His new concern is counternarcotics, and soon Lenson uncovers a troubling plot that involves a ruthless drug cartel, an assault on a nuclear power plant in Mexico, Islamic terrorists, and a devastating weapon aimed at the heart of America. "Poyer [is] a master... more

  • Korea Strait (Dan Lenson #10)
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    Korea Strait (Dan Lenson #10)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings · published 2007

    Commander Dan Lenson is assigned to conduct a major international naval exercise, with players from South Korea, the USA, Great Britain, Japan, and Australia. But old alliances are unravelling and one night at sea in a South Korean frigate, it seems that World War III is about to begin.

  • The Weapon (Dan Lenson #11)
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    The Weapon (Dan Lenson #11)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings · published 2008

    A deadly new weapon hits the international arms market---and the only way to preserve the balance of power in the Mideast is to hijack the Iranian sub that carries it.United States Navy Commander and Medal of Honor winner Dan Lenson has been handed another outside-the-box assignment. TAG Charlie, an elite team of active-duty sailors, SEALs, and civilian analysts, is tasked to investigate and defuse emerging naval threats around the globe... more

  • The Crisis (Dan Lenson #12)
    #12

    The Crisis (Dan Lenson #12)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings · published 2009

    Dan Lenson is assigned an urgent mission in a war-torn, famine-plagued country on the brink of collapse. He and his select team of SEALs, civilian analysts, and relief workers are part of an immense effort to bring, food, water, and medical supplies to civilians - while the United States battles pirate from the air and seas.

  • The Cruiser (Dan Lenson #14)
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    The Cruiser (Dan Lenson #14)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2014

    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... more

  • Onslaught: The War with China--the Opening Battle (Dan Lenson #16)
    #16

    Onslaught: The War with China--the Opening Battle (Dan Lenson #16)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2016

    Onslaught chronicles Captain Dan Lenson’s latest challenge as the U.S. Navy struggles to hold Taiwan, Korea, and Japan against a massive Chinese offensive. The prize: domination of Asia and the Western Pacific.As the United States’ computer, satellite, and financial networks are ravaged by coordinated cyberwar attacks, China and its Associated Powers begin to roll up and intimidate American allies, launching invasions of India, Taiwan, South Korea, and Okinawa... more

  • Hunter Killer: The War with China - The Battle for the Central Pacific (Dan Lenson #17)
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    Hunter Killer: The War with China - The Battle for the Central Pacific (Dan Lenson #17)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2017

    World War with China explodes in Hunter Killer, David Poyer's dramatic new thriller. The United States stands nearly alone in its determination to fight, rather than give into the expansionist demands of the aggressive new “People’s Empire... more

  • Deep War: The War with China and North Korea—The Nuclear Precipice (Dan Lenson #18)
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    Deep War: The War with China and North Korea—The Nuclear Precipice (Dan Lenson #18)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2018

    The war against China turns dire, as the United States struggles to survive in this gripping thriller featuring Navy commander Dan Lenson.After the United States suffers a devastating nuclear attack, and facing food shortages, power outages, cyber and AI assaults, and a wrecked economy, Admiral Dan Lenson leads an allied force assigned to turn the tide of war in the Pacific, using precisely targeted missiles and high-tech weapons systems... more

  • Overthrow: The War with China and North Korea--Fall of an Empire (Dan Lenson #19)
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    Overthrow: The War with China and North Korea--Fall of an Empire (Dan Lenson #19)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2019

    The United States and their Allied forces struggle to survive world war with China in this compelling, realistic thriller, the next in the Dan Lenson series World War III continues in Overthrow, the next novel in the acclaimed series featuring Admiral Dan Lenson as the Allies converge against China, North Korea, and Iran in an explosive series of events. Admiral Lenson leads Operation Rupture, the invasion of South China, in a bid to finally end the war and restore peace... more

  • Violent Peace: The War with China: Aftermath of Armageddon (Dan Lenson #20)
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    Violent Peace: The War with China: Aftermath of Armageddon (Dan Lenson #20)

    David Poyer, Gary Galone

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2020

    In the next installment of David Poyer's critically-acclaimed series about war with China, mutual exhaustion after a massive nuclear exchange is giving way to a Violent Peace.While Admiral Dan Lenson motorcycles across a post-Armageddon U.S. in search of his missing daughter, his wife Blair Titus lands in a spookily deserted, riot-torn Beijing to negotiate the reunification of Taiwan with the rest of China, and try to create a democratic government... more

  • Arctic Sea (Dan Lenson #21)
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    Arctic Sea (Dan Lenson #21)

    David Poyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2021

    In David Poyer's Arctic Sea, beneath the frigid Arctic waters, a devastating new weapon threatens America. Arctic Sea is the next thrilling entry in David Poyer's critically-acclaimed future war series. In the aftermath of a world war with China, Admiral Dan Lenson is assigned to set up a US Navy base on the rugged North Slope of Alaska, in response to Russian seabed claims that reach nearly to the US coast. Yet the current administration seems oddly reluctant to confront Russian aggression... more

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