Commander

<p><em>Commander</em> is the second book in a trilogy following <em>Chief </em>which covered the exploits of the author's Father Hod a chief gunner's mate in WWII.  </p><p>Dance Dantes a Naval Academy grad rowed crew for a Marine coach and became used to winning. <em>Commander</em> takes place in the post-Viet Nam years and we find Dantes retired and the founder of The Liberal List a conservative blog with a rabid following and up to his eyes in D.C. politics a renegade CIA Exec and pesky former Soviets bent on vengeance with a top CIA spook Starzinger Zinger for short. Romance blooms for Dance with a beautiful national network TV news star and it all gets very complicated when top liberals from Dance's blog start showing up dead.</p><p>Add into the mix Dance's turned back then bilged classmate Wade another USNA former midshipman who became a career Navy SEAL. Both live in the D.C. - Annapolis area and their friendship continues sometimes in very unexpected ways.</p><p>The action weaves together a competing national news network correspondent Zinger's Girl Friday/ Office Secretary Dixie Delight and the owner of the local Annapolis newspaper a Georgia Tech Engineering grad spending the last of the bequest from her grandmother on a moribund failing local institution and always looking for the story behind the story</p>