Tipping Point: The War with China the First Salvo - Hardcover

Poyer, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250054435 ISBN 13: 9781250054432

Verlag: St Martin's Press, 2015

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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 own future, but determined to do his best by a damaged ship and an increasingly divided crew. Ordered to the Indian Ocean, Savo cruises off East Africa, protecting shipping lanes from pirates. But this seemingly-routine patrol turns ominous when an unknown assailant begins assaulting female crew members. But then, an explosive showdown begins between India and Pakistan...with Savo Island, and her unique but not yet fully battle-ready ability to intercept ballistic missiles, standing alone between two nations on the brink of the first theater nuclear war. Dan will have to battle tsunami-driven seas, incoming weapons, and a quickly tilting balance of power, as China moves inexorably in her bid to displace America in the far Pacific. The fifteenth novel in David Poyer's acclaimed series of naval adventures featuring Dan Lenson, Tipping Point is an action-packed, utterly authentic story of duty, war, and the stress of command, by the most popular living author of American sea fiction.

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DAVID POYER's sea career included service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, and Pacific. Tipping Point is the fifteenth in his widely popular series featuring Captain Dan Lenson. Poyer's 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.

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Tipping Point

The War with China — the First Salvo

By David Poyer

St. Martin's Press

Copyright © 2015 David Poyer
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-250-05443-2

Contents

Title Page, 
Copyright Notice, 
Epigraph, 
1. Crete, 
Part I. The Doctrine, 
2. Arlington, Virginia, 
3. The Pentagon, 
4. Capitol Hill, 
Part II. Into the Labyrinth, 
5. The Red Sea, 
6. The Gulf of Aden, 
7. The Strait of Hormuz, 
8. The United Arab Emirates, 
9. The Arabian Sea, 
Part III. IO, 
10. On the Hash Highway, 
11. The East Coast of Africa, 
12. The Indian Ocean, 
13. Male, the Maldive Islands, 
Part IV. On Station, 
14. Heading North, 
15. Tropic of Cancer, 
16. OpArea Endive, 
17. The Devil and the Sea, 
Part V. August 1914, 
18. Carrier Strike Group One: The Eastern Indian Ocean, 
19. The South China Sea, 
20. Off the China Coast, 
Acknowledgments, 
About the Author, 
Also by David Poyer, 
Copyright, 

CHAPTER 1

Crete

EVEN the hills looked ancient. They stretched away mile after mile, bright green under the spring sky, patched with bleached rock where the spare soil had worn away. Over centuries, no, millennia ...

Dan Lenson glanced at his wife. Her head was turned away, blond hair flickering in the warm wind from the open passenger-side window. The breeze smelled of sage, rosemary, cypress, a warm mingled scent blowing off the myrtle-covered hills. Blair had flown in the day before, and he'd left his executive officer in charge while he took two days' leave.

"My wife, the congresswoman," he murmured.

She pressed a finger to his lips. "Don't jinx me, okay? It's by no means a shoo-in."

The rented BMW was headed south, along a winding two-lane coast road lined with rustling olive groves, each a slightly different blue or green. Violet and cream flowers bloomed along the verge, and the blue Mediterranean murmured on their left. No one seemed to build near the water here. Maybe, Dan thought, they remembered ancient disasters. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis ... classical civilization had risen atop a tectonic fault line.

They'd dined the evening before at a restaurant atop one of those myrtle-choked hills. Cheese pies, Cretan rice, slow-cooked wild hare with artichoke hearts, followed with phyllo-dough pastries and candied fruit. He'd told her how the English word candy had come from a town near where they were going: ancient Candia. And she'd told him what she was doing at SAIC, where a shadow cabinet convened when her party was out of national office. She'd tried the raki, and sputtered it out, to the amusement of the other diners.

They'd stayed overnight in Mperetiana, at a hotel overlooking the sea. The bay was so narrow he could look across to the gray speck that was USS Savo Island, moored at the long pier at the naval base. A crane barge lay alongside. It had extracted the remaining missiles aft, both the live ones left from the brief but fierce engagement with an Iranian task force the month before, and the dud rounds damaged in an electrical fire before that. Now the whole magazine, wiring and controls, was being refurbished by a Tiger Team from Norfolk.

But for a few hours, he'd almost forgotten his responsibilities. Renewed passion and ripped-off clothes, along with strange little arguments, quickly extinguished flares of temper. But just as quickly, recurring.

They'd coupled again hungrily this morning, followed by an hour of sleeping in. Showered, and enjoyed a leisu

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: St Martin's Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1250054435
• ISBN 13: 9781250054432
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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