The Return of Philo T. McGiffin

In this comic and irreverent novel, author and retired naval captain David Poyer--famous for such bestsellers as The Med, The Gulf, The Circle , The Passage, and other bestselling novels of the modern military--brilliantly re-creates the hothouse world of the U.S. Naval Academy.

Poyer's Philo T. McGiffin, arriving at Annapolis to find that he is burdened with the name of a legendary prankster from the class of 1882, attracts attention from the day he reports for Plebe Summer, and the upperclassmen soon make his life a living hell. Stoop-shouldered and meek, he seems an unlikely candidate to carry on the tradition of the original Philo, whose outrageous escapades had served as a symbol of subversive individualism to generations of midshipmen. At first Philo nearly buckles under from the strain, but gradually "The Mouse" learns to roar and ultimately to triumph in the grand style of his predecessor. Funny, touching, and enormously realistic, this madcap novel will bring back to everyone what it was like to be 17 . . . and in deep, deep trouble. . . .