The Oceans and the Stars av Mark Helprin

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<B>Mark Helprin, the #1 <I>New York Times </I>bestselling author of <I>Winter’s Tale</I> and <I>A Soldier of the Great War</I>, presents 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 love.</B><BR/> <BR/> A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype––<I>Athena</I>, Patrol Coastal 15––with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral.<BR/> <BR/> Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising <I>Athena</I>’s fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in las