Violent Peace: The War With China: Aftermath of Armageddon

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by David Poyer


  For overall help and encouragement along this pilgrimage, I owe recognition to the Surface Navy Association, Hampton Roads Chapter; Charle Ricci and Stacia Childers of the Eastern Shore Public Library; the ESO Writers’ Workshop; with bows to Bill Doughty, James W. Neuman, Alan Smith, John T. Fusselman, Richard Enderly, and others (they know who they are), both retired and still on active duty, who put in many hours adding perspective and leading me down the path of righteousness. If I left anyone out, apologies!

  Once more: these sources were consulted for the purposes of fiction. The specifics of tactics, units, and locales are employed as the materials of story, not reportage. Some details have been altered to protect classified capabilities and procedures.

  My deepest gratitude goes to George Witte, editor and friend of over three decades, without whom this series would not exist. And Sally Richardson, Young Jin Lim, Ken Silver, Janna Dokos, Martin Quinn, Paul Hochman, Naia Poyer, Adam Goldberger, Sarah Schoof, Amelie Littell, and Kevin Reilly at St. Martin’s/Macmillan.

  And finally to Lenore Hart, anchor on lee shores, and my North Star when skies are clear.

  As always, all errors and deficiencies are my own.

  ALSO BY DAVID POYER

  Tales of the Modern Navy

  Overthrow

  Deep War

  Hunter Killer

  Onslaught

  Tipping Point

  The Cruiser

  The Towers

  The Crisis

  The Weapon

  Korea Strait

  The Threat

  The Command

  Black Storm

  China Sea

  Tomahawk

  The Passage

  The Circle

  The Gulf

  The Med

  Tiller Galloway

  Down to a Sunless Sea Bahamas Blue

  Louisiana Blue Hatteras Blue

  The Civil War at Sea

  That Anvil of Our Souls

  A Country of Our Own

  Fire on the Waters

  Hemlock County

  Thunder on the Mountain Winter in the heart

  As the Wolf Loves Winter The Dead of Winter

  Other Books

  Heroes of Annapolis

  On War and Politics (with Arnold Punaro)

  The Whiteness of the Whale

  Happier Than This Day and Time

  Ghosting

  The Only Thing to Fear

  Stepfather Bank

  The Return of Philo T. McGiffin

  Star Seed

  The Shiloh Project

  White Continent

  About the Author

  DAVID POYER’s military career included service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, Pacific, Middle East, and the Pentagon. Violent Peace is the twentieth in his widely popular series of novels featuring Daniel V. Lenson. Poyer’s work has been required reading at the U.S. Naval Academy, along with that of Joseph Conrad and Herman Melville. He lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  I: Bomblight

  1. Beijing

  2. California

  3. USS Savo Island Wakkanai Bay, Japan

  4. USNS Mercy, T-AH-19 The South China Sea

  5. Xinjiang Province, Western China

  II: Chaos Rising

  6. Beijing

  7. 35°17′02″ N, 130°34′55″ E: The Sea of Japan

  8. Headed East

  9. The Tian Shan Mountains, Western China

  10. Camp Pendleton, California

  III: Spent Assets

  11. Chadron, Nebraska

  12. The Sea of Japan

  13. McLean, Virginia

  14. Singapore

  15. The Eastern Shore, Maryland

  IV: The Judgment of the Fates

  16. Washington, DC

  17. Nagano, Japan

  18. Republic of the Covenant, Missouri

  19. The Pentagon, Washington, DC

  20. Xinjiang, Western China

  21. The Eastern Shore, Maryland

  The Afterimage: Arlington, Virginia

  Acknowledgments

  Also by David Poyer

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  First published in the United States by St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group

  VIOLENT PEACE. Copyright © 2020 by David Poyer. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

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  Cover design by Young Jin Lim

  Cover illustration by Steve Gardner/ Pixelworks Studios, Inc.; photographs of buildings, rubbles, debris, cars, and flames © Shutterstock.com

  The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

  ISBN 978-1-250-22058-5 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-250-22059-2 (ebook)

  eISBN 9781250220592

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  First Edition: 2020

 

 

 


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