"The Med" is a military novel of ambition and adventure, tracing the events when 100 American and British hostages in Cyprus are transported to the Syrian Hills by Palestinian terrorists, and Task Force 61 of the US Navy is summoned back from leave to undertake the dramatic rescue. David Poyer graduated from Annapolis Naval Academy, Maryland and served for six years as an officer in the Navy before resigning to write military fiction, including "Stepfather Bank" and "The Return of Philo T. McGriffin".