P.T. Deutermann

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1994
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Cam Richter

1 - The Cat Dancers (Dec-2005)
2 - Spider Mountain (Jan-2007)
3 - The Moonpool (Jun-2008)
4 - Nightwalkers (Jun-2009)

World War II Navy

1 - Pacific Glory (Mar-2011)
2 - The Ghosts of Bungo Suido (Aug-2013)
3 - Sentinels of Fire (Jul-2014)
4 - The Commodore (Aug-2016)
5 - The Iceman (Aug-2018)
6 - The Nugget (Oct-2019)
7 - The Hooligans (Aug-2020)
8 - Trial by Fire (Jul-2021)
9 - The Last Paladin (Jul-2022)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Scorpion in the Sea

    MENACE On a calm night off the Florida coast, a fishing boat vanishes without a trace. Something deadly is hiding in U.S. waters, and the Navy brass would rather bury the truth than face it. MAVERICK It's Montgomery's war now. Brash and unconven...

  • The Edge of Honor

    A MAN ON THE BRINK OF HIS DESTINY... It is the height of the Vietnam War and young Lt. Brian Holcomb is about to embark on an eight-month tour of duty that will bring him one step away from commanding his own ship. A WOMAN TEMPTED BY DESIRE... ...

  • Official Privilege

    Official Privilege begins with a mystery: in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, the mummified body of a black Navy lieutenant is found bolted inside the boiler of a deactivated battleship. While the cause of death is clear, the officer's identity is no...

  • Red Crown

  • Sweepers

    THE U.S. NAVY MADE HIM THE ULTIMATE KILLER. NOW THEY CAN'T STOP HIM... It begins with a routine police investigation. A beautiful woman is dead. A detective needs answers. And a newly appointed Pentagon admiral is scrambling for his career and for...

  • Zero Option

    AN EYE They call it "Wet Eye": a biological weapon that literally eats out the eyes of its victims. Now, deep within the belly of the U.S. military establishment, one small silver canister of Wet Eye is missing--lost because a career pencil-pusher h...

  • Train man

    ALL On a dark night, a bridge is blown to smithereens, thunderously plunging a one-hundred-car train deep into the Mississippi River. In Washington, the FBI scrambles--sending Assistant Director Hush Hanson and agent Carolyn Lang to investigate the ...

  • Hunting Season

    IF IT MOVES Edwin Kreiss is a retired FBI agent -- a manhunter whose specialty is making rogue operatives disappear. When Kreiss's daughter vanishes in the backwoods of rural West Virginia, and the FBI has no leads to follow, Kreiss follows his own -...

  • Darkside

    At the US Naval Academy, the students refer to the administration as the Darkside, a nickname befitting the secrecy and manipulation that occur behind closed office doors. So when a first-year student falls to his death from a campus building, the Ac...



  • Firefly

    FIREFLY: A SMALL BUT CREDIBLE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY. TICK According to the D.C. cops, the fiery destruction of an upscale plastic surgery clinic and its staff is just business as usual. With the whole city on high alert because of the upcoming...

  • The Cat Dancers

    Cam Richter - 1

    When two lowlifes rob a gas station, murder the attendant, and then incinerate bystanders who are filling up their minivan, the Manceford County, North Carolina, police quickly arrest the killers at a nearby motel. But a stubborn judge throws out...

  • Spider Mountain

    Cam Richter - 2

    A huge dog came out of the woods from our right and lunged at my face. I ducked the snapping jaws by throwing myself backward hard enough to crack my head on the ground. The dog went over my head, landing in a heap, but then whirled around . . . S...

  • The Moonpool

    Cam Richter - 3

    I remembered it from high school chemistry, one of those experiments where we made hydrogen. It was more of an acidic sensation on the palate than a real smell, but I recognized it. The pile of spent fuel at the bottom was beginning to outgas. Next w...

  • Nightwalkers

    Cam Richter - 4

    Cam Richter steps back from his too-eventful detective service and seeks more peaceful pastures in the North Carolina countryside. He buys a seven hundred acre ante-bellum plantation, and immediately finds himself the target of a killer who holds him...

  • Pacific Glory

    World War II Navy - 1

    A thrilling, multi-layered World War II adventure following two men and an unforgettable woman, from Pearl Harbor through the most dramatic air and sea battles of the war Marsh, Mick, and Tommy were inseparable friends during their naval academy y...

  • The Last Man

    A woman goes missing, sending a young nuclear engineer on a quest deep into the Judean desert to the legendary fortress of Masada, where secrets are concealed When a young Israeli woman suddenly goes missing, her boyfriend, an American nuclear en...

  • The Ghosts of Bungo Suido

    World War II Navy - 2

    A thrilling WWII adventure set in a submarine in the Pacific, by the Boyd Award-winning author of Pacific Glory In late 1944, America’s naval forces face what seems an insurmountable threat from Japan: immense Yamato-class battleships, which dwa...

  • Sentinels of Fire

    World War II Navy - 3

    P.T. Deutermann's World War II navy series began with the award-winning "Pacific Glory," followed by the brilliantly reviewed "Ghosts of Bungo Suido." His new novel "Sentinels of Fire" tells the tale of a lone destroyer, the "USS Malloy," part of the...

  • Cold Frame

    The downtown area of today's Washington, D.C., has become an armed camp. Men with assault rifles crouch on top of monuments and buildings. Anti-missile sites bristle on the White House roof. Meter maids carry Glocks and tactical radios, all in the na...



  • The Commodore

    World War II Navy - 4

    In The Commodore, the Navy in 1942-1943 is fighting a losing battle against Japan for control of the Solomon Islands. Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey is tasked to change the course of the war. Halsey, a maverick, goes on the offensive and appoints...

  • Red Swan

    Written with the authority of twenty-six years of military and government service at sea and in Washington, P.T. Deutermann's RED SWAN is a brilliant, provocative thriller about the contemporary war that no one sees, but which will shape the future o...

  • The Iceman

    World War II Navy - 5

    THE ICEMAN is an action-packed World War II military thriller featuring a daring United States Navy submarine commander during the Pacific war in 1942-43. In 1942, off the port city of St. Nazaire in occupied France, a United States Navy S-class s...

  • The Nugget

    World War II Navy - 6

    A novice naval aviator grows into a hero in this gripping and authentic World War II adventure by master storyteller P. T. Deutermann Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget," who needs to learn th...

  • The Hooligans

    World War II Navy - 7

    A gripping and authentic World War II naval adventure by a master storytellerThe Hooligans fictionalizes the little-known but remarkable exploits of “The Hooligan Navy” that fought in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Loosely-organized in fast...

  • Trial by Fire

    World War II Navy - 8

    Based on a true story -- P. T. Deutermann's Trial by Fire is a dramatic WWII novel of attack, survival, and triumph on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.It's March 1945 and the war in the Pacific is approaching its apocalyptic climax. The larg...

  • The Last Paladin

    World War II Navy - 9

    Winner of the 2023 W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction: A gripping tale of anti-submarine warfare in the World War II Pacific Theater, by a master of military adventure fiction.The Last Paladin by P.T. Deutermann is based on t...

  • Iwo, 26 Charlie

    The tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima was the focus of an epic land and sea battle that produced one of the most iconic images of World War II: US Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi, an active volcano where American and Japanese soldi...

  • The Second Sun

    A taut, suspenseful historical thriller set in the months of WWII: Did Japan also have an atomic weapon, and did America bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki to pre-empt an attack on its fleet?A masterful historical thriller set during the waning months of Wo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

P.T. Deutermann has published 28 books.

The next book by P.T. Deutermann, The Second Sun, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by P.T. Deutermann, Scorpion in the Sea, was published in February 1994.

Yes. P.T. Deutermann has 2 series.
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