Without patience, a sailor I would never be—Lee Allred Bestselling novelist David Poyer speaks with a patient tongue, and with a shipwright’s steady and sure hand molds from words a vessel. And like a master shipwright’s work, Poyer’s naval thrillers are composed out of airy will as if they were the finest oak, the most durable cypress. Poyer novels are carefully wrought from research and experience. A frame built with patience and deliberate and meticulous strikes. “I like to do the research, not just the archives, but museums. Museums preserve the objects the people interacted with. Your job as a writer is to recreate the experiences.” To tell the best story you can. His voice is calm, patient, and rings with dedication. A sense of duty. No longer to the Navy but to the story, the alluvial flow of words that is the work of a novelist. Over the course of his career, Poyer’s novels have touched upon contemporary hot topics such as environmentalism, bigg...
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