Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times, best-selling author of Winter?s Tale and A Soldier ofthe Great War, has returned with a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in loveWhen Stephen Rensselaer, a Navy captain near the end of his career, is called upon to defend the politically doomed development of a variant of the Navy?s smallest ship, he does so without hesitation, thereby alienating the President of the United States. The program is cancelled after its first prototype, Athena, Patrol Coastal 15, and Rensselaer?his place on the promotion list for admiral all but forgotten?is given command, an intended humiliation for someone of his rank. Rather than resign, he carries on, and while supervising Athena?s fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls...
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