- Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; Reprint edition (Nov 2 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312532482
- ISBN-13: 978-0312532482
- Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.8 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #448,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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SPECTACULAR PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF DAVID POYER
THE CRISIS
“Outstanding…Poyer, an Annapolis graduate, focuses on how his vividly drawn characters behave amid the shifting alliances, while the action inexorably builds to a conclusion that’s both tragic and ironic.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)
“Riveting.”—Richmond Times Dispatch
“Dave Poyer has again captured the essence of modern warfare. Not only is this a gripping war tale, but through its rich characters offers important insights into the roots of the current global conflict of cultures.”—Major General Andrew B. Davis, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), Former Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa
“Once again, Dan Lenson is a hero among heroes.”—The Officer magazine
“A super thought-provoking thriller that will have readers pondering ethical and logistical questions.”—The Mystery Gazette
THE WEAPON
“Those who relish naval action won’t be able to come up for air until they turn the last page of this nail-biter.” —Publishers Weekly
“If you like naval action with detailed schematics, this one’s for you.”—The Oklahoman
KOREA STRAIT
“The taut tenth entry in Poyer’s series…is rich in the naval detail fans have come to expect…a satisfying, fast-paced narrative…Dan Lenson remains a winningly weary hero.” —Publishers Weekly
“Realistic and frightening…well up to Poyer’s excellent standards. No bluster, no dazzle, just real naval engagements that we may well see before long.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Exciting . . . fans of modern naval warfare will relish the details and sea action, as well as the insights into the Korean situation and the Korean people. Recommended for popular thriller collections.” —Library Journal
THE THREAT
“Plenty of action, plot twists….frenetically paced…[an] engaging pot boiler.” —The Virginian-Pilot
Product Description
Navy Commander 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 pirates from the air and sea and tries to stabilize a corrupt local government.
But Dan finds the situation much worse than intelligence suggests. A charismatic Islamic warlord is winning a village-by-village battle with a hit and run battle strategy. After a devastating insurgent offensive culminates in a massive hotel bombing, there can be no turning back. With thousands of lives at stake and the humanitarian mission about to fail, Dan and his team must scour the forbidding desert for a man never photographed, whose name they don’t even know. And if they find him, they must kill him…or die themselves in a brutal, unforgiving land.
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3.4 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Very Little to Recommend, Dec 14 2009
By Patrick J. Sullivan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Crisis: A Dan Lenson Novel (Hardcover)
Finishing this one was a real chore for me. Since The Command, Poyer's last few tales of the modern navy featuring thoughtful protagonist Dan Lenson have been progressively less interesting. This one outdoes all the others in the boredom department.The modern navy is actually on very limited display. Much of the action is told from the point of view of three African children (the novel is set in an Eritrea-like fictional country). The plight of this region of Africa is a real and terrible one, but neither real not fictional children have much to offer that is new or useful.
Besides the underused Lenson, other characters from earlier Poyer novels reappear, chiefly SEAL 'Obie' Oberg, whose parts of the story are the only sections of any interest. An improbable NCIS investigator also makes a second appearance and is even less believable than she was before. In what at first looked to be a mildly interesting subplot, Lenson and a female officer who had served with him before seem to develop a mutual attraction - but this storyline never goes anywhere, much like the novel itself.
For his next effort, I hope Poyer either returns Lenson to a more nautical setting or else reinstalls him in a political role where at least something of interest is happening. The author's continuing detachment from his feature character may indicate that he feels he has mined Lenson for all the character development he is good for. If so, that's fine, but then there's no need for him to keep writing novels set in the 'Lensonverse,' or to include Lenson at all.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
super thought provoking thriller, Nov 10 2009
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Crisis: A Dan Lenson Novel (Hardcover)
The western governments are very concerned with the civil war in Ashaara on the strategically important Horn of Africa. The constant fighting has sent the country into deepening destitution with shortages in sustenance life necessities in a place that was already overrun with abject poverty. If the spiral turns any worse, Ashaara could become a nation void of central authority and home to outlaws and Jihadists.To prevent this horror from turning even more calamitous, the US Navy sends Commander Dan Lenson and his Tactical Analysis Group into the area to provide humanitarian aid to the besieged masses and to train a patrol squad in the Red Sea. With chaos the norm, Lenson and his unit realizes they cannot distribute the assistance without an infrastructure followed if successful by a force to weed out terrorists. However, what seems obvious to aid the forlorn proves complex and ugly as internal and external forces see the region as a ripe place for their specific agenda with people being damned.
The Crisis is a super thought provoking thriller that will have readers pondering ethical and logistical questions involving aid to nations desperately in need but lack the infrastructure to make proper distribution. The story line is fast-paced from the moment TAG and its leader receive the assignment, but really takes off in Africa when the team learns the boots on the ground dynamics of the situation is appallingly chaos. Alliance switch within a murmur and helping the indigent is impossible due to avarice of leaders who seek wealth or ideological and religious advantage over truly caring for the downtrodden.
Harriet Klausner
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lenson stumbles into the war of the future amid heat, dust and chaos, May 31 2010
By Daniel Berger - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Crisis: A Dan Lenson Novel (Hardcover)
Dan Lenson helps coordinate the US intervention in a fictional Horn of Africa nation collapsing, a la Somalia, into famine and anarchy.Poyer has a fine ear for the shifting and maneuvering of generals, policy makers, politicians and bureaucrats. To his credit, he finds no easy answers here, as there aren't any. He sees the action through multiple actors - Lenson doesn't see frontline action in this one - who come from various perspectives, including three orphaned siblings, pursuing very different paths of survival after being separated. The eldest has become a charismatic Islamicist warlord who gains control of much of the country.
SEAL Teddy Oberg is violent and sort of a jerk, but his dedication and pure joy in fighting motivate him as his team is sent to liberate ships, free hostages and take down warlords.
Naval CIS agent Aisha Ar-Rahim, caught in country when the collapse begins, finds herself in a strange position. Black, Muslim and Arabic-speaking, she is still seen as an oddity by locals because she's a woman in a position of authority; and meanwhile her Muslim religion and garb leave fellow Americans unclear where her sympathies lie as howling mobs assault the US embassy.
Marine Lance Corporal Caxi Spayer, providing the grunt's-eye view here, befriends the youngest of the three orphans.
Irish researcher Grainne O'Shea - distrustful of Americans - goes through harrowing adventures when cut off deep in the interior. She guards a newly discovered secret she fears getting into the wrong (translation: American or corporate) hands: a huge layer of artesian water that could give the parched country a future.
Overwhelming all of them is the heat and stink of African chaos - you want to take a shower every 30 pages - as a US force tries to distribute relief supplies, secure the capital, and create a new government, meanwhile dealing with venal warlords as well as Washington policymakers who expect them to succeed with only two thousand troops. (The SEAL: "If it didn't suck, they wouldn't send us.")
Citizens live in greatest fear of their own neighbors. Poyer's depictions of violence and depravity, particularly against children, is relentless and disturbing.
Lenson initially comes to the Mideast researching the warfighting techniques of the future, and inadvertantly stumbles into it: small groups of elite fighters like Oberg winning tactical victories with high-tech weapons and support, in the strategic quagmire of countries too far gone to stabilize. Great powers help but don't fully commit, meanwhile seeking the quickest exit and willing to settle for the next dictator as long as he's their boy.
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