Commander - Softcover

DuBois, Dorse H; Connell, Royal W

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798990654303

Publisher: Focsle Llp, 2024

Synopsis

Commander is the second book in a trilogy, following Chief which covered the exploits of the author's Father, "Hod," a chief gunner's mate in WWII.  

"Dance" Dantes a Naval Academy grad, rowed crew for a Marine coach and became used to winning. Commander takes place in the post-Viet Nam years, and we find Dantes retired and the founder of "The Liberal List," a conservative blog with a rabid following, and up to his eyes in D.C. politics, a renegade CIA Exec and pesky former Soviets bent on vengeance with a top CIA spook, "Starzinger," "Zinger" for short. Romance blooms for Dance with a beautiful national network TV news star and it all gets very complicated when top liberals from Dance's blog start showing up dead.

Add into the mix Dance's turned back then bilged classmate Wade, another USNA former midshipman who became a career Navy SEAL. Both live in the D.C. - Annapolis area and their friendship continues, sometimes in very unexpected ways.

The action weaves together a competing national news network correspondent, Zinger's Girl Friday/ Office Secretary Dixie Delight and the owner of the local Annapolis newspaper, a Georgia Tech Engineering grad, spending the last of the bequest from her grandmother on a moribund, failing local institution and always looking for the story behind the story

About this title

About the Authors

Dorse DuBois, a Graduate in the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1961 served aboard six ships in the Fleet and retired after completing a 20 year career in at-sea operations and high tech field testing of high Energy laser Systems in New Mexico. He was also assigned as a Company Officer at the Naval Academy and a Tactical Officer at the Military Academy at West Point. Married, with six children. He currently resides in Florida where he farms and writes and is working on his "Service Trilogy," a series of books about his family's naval Service over a period of three generations.

Royal Connell, a 1970 graduate of the Naval Academy, retired as a Commander from the U.S. Navy, designated both as a Surface Warfare Officer and as a Naval Flight Officer in the E-2C Hawkeye. He served two tours at the Naval Academy, one as the Piloting Navigation Course Coordinator and then as the Administrative and Personnel Officer. Upon retirement, Commander Connell became the first Senior Naval Science Instructor for the Navy Junior ROTC (NJROTC) unit in Annapolis where he taught for 18 years, during which time his unit was selected as the Number One Unit in the Nation by the U.S. Navy League. He subsequently moved to Pensacola FL to assume duties as the Curriculum Director and Cadet Education Coordinator for the NJROTC National Staff. He is the author of Naval Ceremonies, Customs and Traditions (Naval Institute Press, 2004)

Edition details

• Publisher: Focsle Llp
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798990654303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226