David Poyer

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1983
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Civil War at Sea

1 - Fire on the Waters (Jul-2001)
2 - A Country of Our Own (Jul-2003)
3 - That Anvil of Our Souls (Jul-2005)

Dan Lenson

1 - The Circle (May-1992)
2 - The Med (Apr-1988)
3 - The Passage (Jan-1995)
4 - Tomahawk (Apr-1998)
5 - The Gulf (Sep-1990)
6 - China Sea (Mar-2000)
7 - Black Storm (Jun-2002)
8 - The Command (Jun-2004)
9 - The Threat (Nov-2006)
10 - Korea Strait (Dec-2007)
11 - The Weapon (Dec-2008)
12 - The Crisis (Nov-2009)
13 - The Towers (Sep-2011)
14 - The Cruiser (Dec-2014)
15 - Tipping Point (Dec-2015)
16 - Onslaught (Dec-2016)
17 - Hunter Killer (Dec-2017)
18 - Deep War (Dec-2018)
19 - Overthrow (Dec-2019)
20 - Violent Peace (Dec-2020)
21 - Arctic Sea (Nov-2021)

Hemlock County

1 - The Dead of Winter (Mar-1988)
2 - Winter in the Heart (Jun-1993)
3 - As the Wolf Loves Winter (Apr-1996)
Thunder on the Mountain (Mar-1999)

A Tiller Galloway Thriller

1 - Hatteras Blue (Jun-1989)
2 - Bahamas Blue (Jun-1991)
3 - Louisiana Blue (Apr-1994)
4 - Down to a Sunless Sea (Dec-1996)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • The Return of Philo T. McGiffin

  • The Dead of Winter

    Hemlock County - 1

    Combing the woods of rural Pennsylvania in the hopes of finding the man who shot and killed his son in what the police called a hunting accident, Paul Michelson risks his life for the sake of justice. Reissue....

  • The Med

    Dan Lenson - 2

    A powerful and fast-moving tale of the Navy-Marine Corps team in action, on a dangerous mission in the volatile Eastern Mediterranean.Cloaked by the mists of dawn, Task Force 61-- carrying tanks, aircraft, and over 5000 Marines-- steams toward Syria ...

  • Stepfather Bank

    In a 22nd century world where the Bank owns everything, employs everyone, and governs by means of Credit, Monaghan Burlew scams his way through life without using Credit until the Bank tries to eliminate him and, as a result, ignites a revolution...

  • Hatteras Blue

    A Tiller Galloway Thriller - 1


    In a graveyard of the Atlantic, a treacherous sercret has been buried...until now.

    A U-boat went down in 1945, and now, more than 40 years later, the bodies of the three crewmen have surfaced near Hatteras Island. But their chilling reappe...

  • The Gulf

    Dan Lenson - 5

    Aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. Turner Van Zandt, Lieutenant-Commander Dan Lenson and his dedicated crew take on a daring assignment: escort a convoy of supertankers through the mine-filled Persian Gulf. For Lenson and his men, however, the ...

  • Bahamas Blue

    A Tiller Galloway Thriller - 2


    400 feet deep, in the treacherous waters of green turtle cay, lies the world's most dangerous cargo...waiting for the world's most daring diver.

    Salvage diver Tiller Galloway vowed he would never work for "The Baptist" again. Until the men...

  • The Circle

    Dan Lenson - 1

    For four years at Annapolis he prepared for this, pledging his youth, his ambition, and even his life. But when junior officer Dan Lenson finally gets his commission, it's aboard the U.S.S. Ryan, an aging World War II destroyer. Now, with a mix of pr...

  • Winter in the Heart

    Hemlock County - 2

    W. T. Halvorsen is a scapegoat for the crimes of the rich and the mighty. Now, he must convince a judge and jury that organized crime and a corrupt corporation are threatening the lives of his entire community. His only friends outside the court a...



  • Louisiana Blue

    A Tiller Galloway Thriller - 3

    BROKE AND ON THE RUN from a vengeful past, former Navy SEAL 'Tiller" Galloway needs to make himself scarce, and where else to lie low than under the murky, hazardous depths of the Louisiana Gulf? DOWN IN A WORLD OF LIQUID BLUE a thousand treache...

  • The Passage

    Dan Lenson - 3

    The Navy's most sophisticated destroyer, the USS Barrett carries a top-secret computer that can pilot an unmanned ship and send it into battle. As the weapons officer charged with its first mission, Lieutenant Dan Lenson has a chance to make naval hi...

  • The Only Thing to Fear

    A flight of the historical imagination that will leave readers dazzled. - Thomas Fleming Solid research buttresses Poyer's latest, a consistently engrossing WWII novel featuring FDR and skinny naval officer John Fitzgerald Kennedy. - Publisher's Wee...

  • As the Wolf Loves Winter

    Hemlock County - 3

    It is snowing in the wintry mountains of northwestern Pennsylvania. Once the land of wilderness scouts, later of the boomtowns of the first American oil barons, it is now a spare country of proud men and women hanging on to their lives, dignity, and ...

  • Down to a Sunless Sea

    A Tiller Galloway Thriller - 4

    Depth: 105... Wriggling like an eel, he forced himself up into the narrow gap he'd created...Rocks scraped and clattered away. A hint of doubt--Should I be doing this?--was answered by the calm comfort that pervaded his mind now. Nothing was going to...

  • Tomahawk

    Dan Lenson - 4

    The bestselling novels of David Poyer have been read by millions around the world, and The New York Times Book Review has proclaimed: "Poyer knows what he is writing about when it comes to anything on, above or below the water." Now he unleashes a he...

  • Thunder on the Mountain

    Hemlock County


    David Poyer, well-known for his Navy thrillers, has been writing a series of ambitious novels set in the fictional Hemlock County, Pennsylvania, at various points in history in the last century, and involving families and characters that recur fr...

  • China Sea

    Dan Lenson - 6

    WELCOME TO THE MOST DANGEROUS SEA IN THE WORLD Lieutenant-Commander Dan Lenson thought he was taking the USS Gaddis on her final journey, to turn her over to the Pakistan Navy. But suddenly his mission's changed. Now, he's commanding an undermanne...

  • Fire on the Waters

    The Civil War at Sea - 1

    The year is 1861, and America shudders on the brink of disunion. Elisha Eaker, scion of a wealthy Manhattan banking family, joins the Navy against his father's wishes. He does it as much to avoid an arranged marriage to his cousin, Araminta Van Velso...

  • Black Storm

    Dan Lenson - 7

    With blistering action sequences and incredibly detailed military insight, Black Storm takes the reader along with the most covert Special Ops group straight to Saddam Hussein's stronghold, through harrowing instances of close-quarters combat, and in...



  • A Country of Our Own

    The Civil War at Sea - 2

    We first met Lt. Ker Custis Claiborne, formerly of the United States Navy, in Fire on the Waters. Claiborne is no admirer of slavery. But he's a Virginian, joining the fledgling Confederate States Navy in 1861. After fighting along the Potomac with t...

  • The Command

    Dan Lenson - 8

    A NEW KIND OF SOLDIER Around the globe, Navy crews train to fight missiles, planes, torpedoes, and terrorism. But the Navy is being shaken from within, as women prepare for combat duty. On the Spruance-class destroyer USS Thomas Horn, some men won't...

  • That Anvil of Our Souls

    The Civil War at Sea - 3

    In the third volume of David Poyer's monumental Civil War at Sea cycle, North meets South in the momentous first battle between ironclads.

    In Fire on the Waters America split in two and the characters in David Poyer's Civil War at Sea serie...

  • The Threat

    Dan Lenson - 9

    Medal of Honor winner Commander Dan Lenson wonders who proposed that he be assigned to the White House military staff. It's a dubious honor---serving a president the Joint Chiefs hate more than any other in modern history. Lenson reports to the W...

  • Korea Strait

    Dan Lenson - 10

    United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor winner Dan Lenson's mission is to observe an international military exercise involving the navies of South Korea, Japan, Australia, and America. It should be routine duty for Dan, but old alliances are un...

  • The Weapon

    Dan Lenson - 11

    As a member of TAG Charlie -- an elite team of active-duty sailors, SEALs, and civilian analysts -- United States Navy Commander and Medal of Honor winner Dan Lenson must defuse emerging naval threats around the globe. The deadly Skhval K, an unstopp...

  • The Crisis

    Dan Lenson - 12

    Naval Commander Dan Lenson and his Tactical Analysis Group specialize in out of the box military assign ments. Comprising sailors, Navy SEALS, and civilians, the group investigates and defuses naval threats around the world. Dan and his team are assi...

  • Ghosting

    Dr. Jack Scales, a prominent neurosurgeon, is at the peak of his career. To celebrate, he decides to make up for lost time and buys a sailing yacht christened Slow Dance, for a family cruise to Bermuda. But the family is strained: Jack's wife Arlen i...

  • The Towers

    Dan Lenson - 13

    After surviving the attacks on September 11, 2001, Dan Lenson finds himself quickly drawn into a covert SEAL team in search of the terrorists responsible. Their mission: kill Osama Bin Laden. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Commander Dan Len...

  • White Continent

    For thirty years, diehard David Poyer fans searched used bookstores for the few tattered surviving copies of WHITE CONTINENT. This sprawling first novel reads like a remix of ATLAS SHRUGGED and THE DOGS OF WAR. It follows a team of adventurers, merce...



  • THE Shiloh Project

    The uneasy peace that has existed for more than 100 years between the Confederate States and the United States may be over.... -- Civil War TimesA riveting alternate history in the tradition of THE GUNS OF THE SOUTH and SS-GB.The South won at Gettysb...

  • Happier Than This Day And Time

    "A major contribution to the preservation of the lore and heritage of the Outer Banks." -- David Stick "The voices ring with authenticity." -- Paul Clancy, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot How much would you give to talk quietly for just one hour with your gr...

  • The Whiteness of the Whale

    An antiwhaling expedition to the freezing Antarctic takes a violent turn in this powerful novel from bestselling author and sailor David Poyer. After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard’s career as a primate behavi...

  • The Cruiser

    Dan Lenson - 14

    Newly-promoted to Captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples....

  • Tipping Point

    Dan Lenson - 15

    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 c...

  • Onslaught

    Dan Lenson - 16

    ONSLAUGHT chronicles Captain Dan Lenson’s latest challenge as the U.S. Navy struggles to hold Taiwan, Korea, and Japan against a massive Chinese offensive. The prize: domination of Asia and the Western Pacific. As the United States’ computer, sa...

  • Hunter Killer

    Dan Lenson - 17

    World War with China explodes in HUNTER KILLER, David Poyer's dramatic new thriller. The United States stands nearly alone in its determination to fight, rather than give into the expansionist demands of the aggressive new “People’s Empire.” Th...

  • Deep War

    Dan Lenson - 18

    The war against China turns dire, as the United States struggles to survive in this gripping thriller featuring Navy commander Dan Lenson After the United States suffers a devastating nuclear attack, and facing food shortages, power outages, cyber...

  • Overthrow

    Dan Lenson - 19

    The United States and their Allied forces struggle to survive world war with China in this compelling, realistic thriller, the next in the Dan Lenson series. World War III continues in David Poyer's Overthrow, the next novel in the acclaimed s...

  • Violent Peace

    Dan Lenson - 20

    World War III is over… or is it? Superpowers race to fill the postwar power vacuum in this page-turning thriller, the next in the Dan Lenson series.In the next installment of David Poyer’s critically-acclaimed series about war with China, mutual ...



  • Arctic Sea

    Dan Lenson - 21

    New threats surface in the aftermath of WWIII -- this time, in the remote waters of the Arctic.Arctic Sea is the next thrilling entry in David Poyer's critically-acclaimed future war series. In the aftermath of a world war with China, Admiral Dan Len...

  • The Academy

    With high ethical stakes and a suspenseful past-and-present narrative, The Academy is David Poyer's capstone novel in the Dan Lenson series.In his final tour of duty after a remarkable career at sea, Dan Lenson is appointed Superintendent of the US N...

  • The Hill

    Set during the 1960s in a small town, The Hill swirls high school sports, young lust, and a forbidden student-teacher affair into a hurricane that ravages a community. The Hill was Poyer's first novel, written as an experiment at the very beginning o...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Poyer has published 42 books.

David Poyer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Academy, was published in December 2023.

The first book by David Poyer, The Return of Philo T. McGiffin, was published in June 1983.

Yes. David Poyer has 4 series.
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