02304cam a2200349 i 4500 1791436818 TxAuBib 20241210120000.0 230918s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781419769085 hardcover 1419769081 hardcover (OCoLC)1397838990 TxAuBib rda Helprin, Mark, author. The oceans and the stars : a sea story, a war story, a love story : the seven battles and mutiny of Athena, Patrol Coastal Ship 15 / Mark Helprin. New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2023. ©2023. xiii, 493 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising Athena's fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test, and ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy. As in the Odyssey, Katy is the force that keeps him alive and the beacon that lights the way home through seven battles, mutiny, and court martial"-- Provided by publisher. 20241210. WorldShare provided record. United States Navy Fiction. Ship captains Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Trials (Military offenses) Fiction. War fiction. fast Sea fiction. fast TXKIP