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VJ Books presents David Poyer!
 David Poyer was born in DuBois, PA in 1949. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1971, and later received a master's degree from George Washington University.
Poyer's active and reserve naval service included sea duty in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, and Pacific, and shore duty at the Pentagon, Surface Warfare Development Group, Joint Forces Command, and in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. He retired in July 2001.
Poyer began writing in 1976, and is the author of over thirty books, including The Med, The Gulf, The Circle, The Passage, Tomahawk, China Sea, Black Storm, The Command, The Threat, Korea Strait, The Weapon, and The Crisis, best-selling Navy novels; The Dead Of Winter, Winter In The Heart, As The Wolf Loves Winter, and Thunder On The Mountain, set in the Pennsylvania hills; and Hatteras Blue, Bahamas Blue, Louisiana Blue, and Down To A Sunless Sea, underwater diving adventure. Other noteworthy books are The Only Thing To Fear, a historical thriller, The Return of Philo T. Mcgiffin, a comic novel of Annapolis, and the three volumes of The Civil War at Sea, Fire On The Waters, A Country Of Our Own, and That Anvil Of Our Souls. His work has been published in Britain, translated into Japanese, Dutch, and Italian, recorded for audiobooks, 1Pod downloads, and Kindle, and selected by the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club. Rights to several properties have been sold or optioned for films.
Poyer has taught or lectured at Annapolis, Flagler College, University of Pittsburgh, Old Dominion University, the Armed Forces Staff College, the University of North Florida, Christopher Newport University, and other institutions. He has been a guest on PBS's "Writer to Writer" series and on Voice of America, and has appeared at the Southern Festival of Books and many other literary events. He teaches in the MA/MFA in Creative Writing program at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre and is a board member of the Library of Virginia. He lives on Virginia's Eastern Shore with his wife, novelist Lenore Hart, and their daughter.
The Towers
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The Threat
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The Passage
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The Crisis
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The Command
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Black Storm
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David Poyer Bibliography
- White Continent Jove Publications 1980
- The Shiloh Project: What If The Civil War Happened Now? Avon Books 1981
- Star Seed (Starblaze Editions), Walsworth Publishing Company, 1982
- The Return of Philo T. McGiffin St.Martin's Press 1983
- The Dead of Winter (Hemlock County) Tor Books 1988
- Stepfather Bank St. Martin's Press 1988
- The Gulf (Dan Lenson Novels) St Martins Press 1990
- Task Force 61 New English Library Ltd 1990
- The Med (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Paperbacks 1991
- Bahamas Blue (Tiller Galloway Thrillers) St. Martin's Paperbacks 1992
- Hatteras Blue (Tiller Galloway Thrillers) St. Martin's Paperbacks 1992
- The Circle (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Paperbacks 1993
- Winter in the Heart Tor Books 1994
- Louisiana Blue (Tiller Galloway Thrillers) St. Martin's Paperbacks 1995
- The Only Thing to Fear Tor Books 1996
- The Passage (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Paperbacks 1997
- The Return of Philo T. McGiffin (Bluejacket Books) US Naval Institute Press 1997 (reissue)
- As The Wolf Loves Winter (Hemlock County) Forge Books 1997
- Down to a Sunless Sea (Tiller Galloway Thrillers) St. Martin's Paperbacks 1998
- Tomahawk (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Paperbacks 2000
- China Sea (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Press 2000
- Thunder on the Mountain (Hemlock County) Forge Books 2000
- Black Storm (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Paperbacks 2003
- Fire on the Waters : A Novel of the Civil War at Sea Simon & Schuster 2003
- The Command (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Press 2005
- A Country of Our Own: A Novel of the Confederate Raiders Simon & Schuster 2005
- That Anvil of Our Souls: A Novel of the Monitor and the Merrimack Simon & Schuster 2006
- Korea Strait (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Press 2007
- The Threat (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Paperbacks 2007
- The Weapon (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Press 2008
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The Crisis (Dan Lenson Novels) St. Martin's Press 2009
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Ghosting St. Martin's Press 2010
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The Towers 2011
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