Academy

This installment closes out David Poyer's Dan Lenson series. Its story moves between two timelines and is driven by serious ethical dilemmas and mounting suspense.

After a long career at sea, Dan Lenson takes up his final assignment as Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He arrives at a troubled moment. Congress is reducing military budgets in the aftermath of a devastating world war with China, and calls for sweeping reform are challenging the Academy's long-held traditions. Dan also faces legal jeopardy over decisions he made during that war.

A powerful hurricane bears down on the coast, and Dan must act to save the Academy itself. Running alongside these present-day events is the story of his years as a first-class midshipman forty years earlier, when a classmate took his own life and Dan was drawn into the investigation. The choices he makes in both periods shape his career and how he leads troops in combat and in peacetime.