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In this comic and irreverent novel, author and naval officer David Poyer--famous for such bestsellers asThe Med, The Gulf, The Circle, andThe Passage-brilliantly re-creates the hothouse world of the U.S. Naval Academy. When the book was first published in 1983 Roger Staubach, class of 1965, wrote, ""Anyone who has attended a service academy will recognize Philo T. McGiffin and his classmates. However, anyone who has ever had a dream or a goal will feel a special kinship with Philo. This is a book worth reading."" Poyer's Philo, burdened with the name of Annapolis's legendary prankster of the class of 1882, attracts attention from the day he reports for Plebe Summer, and the upperclassmen soon make his life a living hell. Stoop-shouldered and meek, he seems an unlikely candidate to carry on the tradition of the original Philo, whose outrageous escapades had served as a symbol of subversive individualism to generations of midshipmen. At first Philo nearly buckles under from the strain, but gradually ""The Mouse"" learns to roar and ultimately to triumph in the grand style of his predecessor. Funny, touching, and enormously realistic, this madcap novel will bring back to everyone what it was like to be 17-and in deep trouble.

About the Author :
David Poyer is an American author and retired naval officer. He was born in DuBois, Pennsylvania in 1949. Poyer graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1971. He wrote as an active duty naval officer and a naval reserve captain, his service included duty in the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific, Caribbean, and Persian Gulf area. He retired from the navy in 2001. Poyer has published almost 30 novels, some of which are required reading at Annapolis, and he is called ""the most popular living author of American sea fiction"". Although best known for his naval fiction, in the 1980s, Poyer also wrote alternative history, and science fiction under the pseudonym David Andreissen. He has also published short fiction and nonfiction in numerous magazines.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781557506894
  • Publisher: Naval Institute Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Naval Institute Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: A Novel
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1557506892
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 440 gr


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