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In the mold of such novels as From Here to Eternity and the recent Time and Tide, this is a powerful story, as honest as it is imaginative, about a joint Navy-Marine task force on a mission to rescue a large group of American and British hostages being held in Syria by Palestinian terrorists. The plot revolves around a few key characters, each in the grip of crises both personal and relevant to the fate of the mission. Among the well-delineated principals are the force commander, a jittery, careerist commodore unworthy of his rank; a naval lieutenant trying to live down a tragic past mistake; a chief engineer who figures in a wonderfully vivid engine-room drama; a sensitive, guitar-playing black who feels out of place in the Marines; the lieutenant's wife, who is among the hostages; and the terrorist leader, ruthless yet with a certain charisma. The commodore's inadequacies jeopardize the Marine assault that is the story's exciting climax. Readers will be gripped by the impression that these are real men in a realistic, and indeed uncomfortably topical, situation. Poyer is a former Navy officer.
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A naval task force in the Mediterranean is ordered to rescue Americans captured by Palestinian terrorists. The wife and daughter of one of the task force's officers are among the hostages. The characters come from every side of a large-scale rescuethe head terrorist, the Navy wife, the commodore, ships' officers, petty officers, a Marine, etc. There is surprisingly little of the complicated and sophisticated machinery of modern warfare, but there are a lot of interior monologues from various introspective and talky people. The plot lines all tie up neatly in an implausible denouement. An overheated, panoramic novel of naval operations that only occasionally raises interest. Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army TRALINET Ctr., Fort Monroe, Va.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 The US Navy in a realisitic book., Oct. 21 2002
This review is from: Med, The (Mass Market Paperback)
I have to say that this book was good. I have never served onboard a ship, but Mr. Poyer paints a detailed picture of the life. The Med deals with Lt. Lenson, a young officer, and his life that occurs during short period of time. The terrorist plot was all too realistic.
My only complaint is for the excessive use of swear words throughtout the book. ...
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Not as good as his later stuff, Juil 13 2002
This review is from: Med, The (Mass Market Paperback)
This is bit different from many of Poyer's other works. The center of the action is the USS Guam (a helicopter assault carrier). This is a different perspective and he carries it off well. Having read his later works first, I can see the impending disaster of Dan Lenson's marriage. The ending is bittersweet. You can see Poyer developing as a writer and his attention to detail is second to none. You know the man has been down in those engine rooms.

This is a good read for naval action buffs.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Back to the shores of Tripoli with Poyer and Lenson, Jui 24 2001
This review is from: Med, The (Mass Market Paperback)
A US amphibious assualt fleet steams the menacing waters of the Eastern mediterranean, it's flag officer all but despised by his subordiantes. Meanwhile, the ships comprising the task force begin breaking down, while the men who run them seem pre-broken-down themselves. When a PLO splinter group uses ethnic unrest on Cyprus to seize a group of Americans as hostages, teh stage is set for disaster. As a further omen of disaster, one of the Task Force's officers is named Dan Lenson, a USN Lieutenant who seems to bring trouble wherever he goes both here and in other books by DC Poyer. While news of the hostage situatiuon, which shifts from Cyprus to an abandoned resort inside Syria, comes soon, that Lenson's wife is one of the hostages is Lenson's wife, remains deliberately suppressed.

Though looking like a techno-thriller, "The Med" as Poyer fans have come to expect, is more of a charachter-driven novel set in a Navy unit. Here, the major players are Lenson, his wife (struggling, confornting, ala Stokholm, her feelings for her captors), Sundstrom, Lenson's unpopular commander (who thinks everybody is setting him up for disaster, and is paralyzed by indecision), Givens, and African-American marine terrorized by his more militant corporal, Wronowicz, the career engineer of a Navy destroyer, and Harisah, the so-called "Majd" who commands the terrorists. As in "The Gulf", these charachters don't always intersect (the UDT divers who remain apart from the focus of Lenson thruought much of that book), but that only clues one into how expansive the subject is. The non-charachter driven parts of the book are refreshingly anti-techno (mostly Wronowicz's epic efforts to change a propellor-shaft bearing while his destroyer is at sea). While a feel for nautical-mechanics of the nuts-and-bolts of amphibious warfare help for an understanding of what's going on, the effects of thsoe efforts in sheer exhaustion are easily visualized. The book climaxes in a seemingly doomed rescue-attempt (though the assault-force has the best chances of getting to the hostages, a rescue attempt seems a more apt job for some special forcers team). The action seems underwhelming, and it's hard to understand what's going on sometimes, though this is probably because Poyer is writing outside of his element. By the end of the book, we know it's not exactly a happy-ending, but things seem way-too pat. Still, the writing and the charachter formations are what drive Poyer books and help them surpass techno-thrillers.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 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. Read more
Publié le Nov. 23 2000 par Jon R. Schlueter

5.0étoiles sur 5 The Real Navy - Real Med
"The Med" is a great read. I say this not just because I'm a former destroyer sailor who enjoys an authentic rendering of naval action, though the book would have repaid... Read more
Publié le Juil 1 2000 par Larry Thornberry

5.0étoiles sur 5 A truly outstanding novel of epic proportions!
As a fellow Naval Officer,I know naval terminology and ships. David Poyer provides all the action and sounds found on naval vessels. Read more
Publié le Déc 29 1998 par Roger Blair rbblair@ctonline.it

4.0étoiles sur 5 The Marines have landed, but they need Lenson to get there!
Lieutenant (jg) Dan Lenson, USN is on a Med cruise aboard a destroyer. His wife and daughter are in Cyprus at the US embassy and are taken hostage by a group of Islamic... Read more
Publié le Juil 15 1998

5.0étoiles sur 5 So real-life it crackles!
When my son bought me my first David Poyer naval drama book, I thought, ho-hum. Then I started to read and was immediately caught up in the shiveringly realistic scenes of life... Read more
Publié le Jui 12 1997

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