The Commodore (42 page)

The Cat Dancers

Spider Mountain

The Moonpool

Nightwalkers

THRILLERS

The Last Man

The Firefly

Darkside

Hunting Season

Train Man

Zero Option

Sweepers

Official Privilege

Cold Frame

SEA STORIES

Sentinels of Fire

Ghosts of Bungo Suido

Pacific Glory

The Edge of Honor

Scorpion in the Sea

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

P. T. Deutermann
is the author of eighteen previous novels, including the World War II novels
Sentinels of Fire, Ghosts of Bungo Suido,
and
Pacific Glory,
which won the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. He spent twenty-six years in military service, which included a Pearl Harbor tour of duty; his father was a commodore on the Okinawa picket line; and Deutermann's uncle, both of his brothers, and both of his children were naval officers. He lives with his wife in North Carolina. You can sign up for email updates
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CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART ONE: THE MAKEE-LEARN

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN

TWENTY

PART TWO: THE CASTAWAY

TWENTY-ONE

TWENTY-TWO

TWENTY-THREE

TWENTY-FOUR

TWENTY-FIVE

TWENTY-SIX

TWENTY-SEVEN

TWENTY-EIGHT

PART THREE: THE COMMODORE

TWENTY-NINE

THIRTY

THIRTY-ONE

THIRTY-TWO

THIRTY-THREE

THIRTY-FOUR

THIRTY-FIVE

THIRTY-SIX

THIRTY-SEVEN

THIRTY-EIGHT

THIRTY-NINE

FORTY

ALSO BY P. T. DEUTERMANN

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.

 

THE COMMODORE.
Copyright © 2016 by P. T. Deutermann. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

 

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Cover design by Young Jin Lim

 

Cover photograph of USS
Kidd
courtesy of USS
Kidd
Veterans Museum

 

Cover illustration by Steve Gardner / Pixelworks Studio, Inc.

 

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

 

ISBN 978-1-250-07807-0 (hardcover)

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e-ISBN 9781250091758

 

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First Edition: August 2016