The Cruiser: A Dan Lenson Novel (45 page)
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Authors: David Poyer
Tags: #Fiction, #Sea Stories, #Thrillers, #Military, #Action & Adventure, #General
The data on jammers is from open sources, mainly an
Air Power Australia
open posting by Dr. Carlo Kopp, April 2012. The power-out figure is from
mostlymissiledefense.com
.
Chapter 15 is mostly from my
San Jacinto
embark, plus a 2003 article in
Lifeline
magazine. Insight into a sometimes prickly relationship is from “US-Israeli Missile Defense,” http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/missile_defense.html. Bill Hunteman helped with the Tomahawk launch scene. The info on force levels is from “CRS Report for Congress, Iraq: US Military Operations,” July 2007. The discussion of ROEs is based on
Rules of Engagement Handbook,
U.S. Naval War College. Missile specifications are from various open sources.
Joe Leonard read large parts of the book and supplied invaluable perspective from the points of view of a cruiser captain and a squadron commander.
Let’s emphasize that all these sources were consulted for the purposes of
fiction
. I’m
not
saying that anything in these references leads to the conclusions my characters reach or voice. Likewise, the specifics of personalities, tactics, and procedures, and the units and locales described, are employed as the materials of fiction, not as reportage. Some details have been altered to protect classified capabilities and procedures.
My most grateful thanks to George Witte, editor and friend of long standing, without whom this series would not exist; to Sally Richardson, Matt Shear, Kenneth J. Silver, Kate Ottaviano, and Sara Thwaite at St. Martin’s; and to Lenore Hart, anchor on lee shores and my North Star when skies are clear.
As always, all errors and deficiencies are my own.
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The Crisis
The Weapon
Korea Strait
The Threat
The Command
Black Storm
China Sea
Tomahawk
The Passage
The Circle
The Gulf
The Med
Tiller Galloway
Down to a Sunless Sea
Louisiana Blue
Bahamas Blue
Hatteras Blue
The Civil War at Sea
That Anvil of Our Souls
A Country of Our Own
Fire on the Waters
Hemlock County
Thunder on the Mountain
As the Wolf Loves Winter
Winter in the Heart
The Dead of Winter
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DAVID POYER’S military career included service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, Pacific, and Middle East.
The Cruiser
is the fourteenth novel in his continuing Dan Lenson series. His work has been required reading in the Literature of the Sea course at the U.S. Naval Academy, along with that of Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville. He lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE CRUISER.
Copyright © 2014 by David Poyer. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Cover design by Young Jin Lim
Cover illustrations by Steve Gardner/PixelWorks Studios, Inc.
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The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
ISBN 978-1-250-02058-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-02059-8 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781250020598
First Edition: December 2014