Donald E. McQuinn (born 1930 in

Winthrop, Massachusetts Winthrop is a town in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,316 at the 2020 census. Winthrop is an ocean-side suburban community in Greater Boston situated at the north entrance to Boston Harbor, close to Logan Int ...

) is an American best-selling author, and former

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. McQuinn graduated from high school in

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, and attended the

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on a Navy scholarship. He served 20 years in the Marines, retiring in 1971 as a major, before becoming an author. In September 1998 he suffered a

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while on vacation in Hawaii and became the first person saved by the police department's recent deployment of

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s. A third book in the ''Captain Lannat'' series was announced by the publisher as "a work in progress",Alt URL
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Bibliography

* ''Targets'' (set during the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...

), 1980, * ''Wake in Darkness'' (set in the

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), 1981, * ''Shadow of Lies'' (contemporary spy novel), July 1985, * Moondark Saga

post-apocalyptic Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; ast ...

trilogy (published in nine parts in Germany) *# ''Warrior'' (November 1990), *# ''Wanderer'' (November 1993), *# ''Witch'' (November 1994), * Captain Lannat science fiction series *# ''With Full Honors'' (November 1996), *# ''The Prisoner Within'' (December 1997),

Notes

References

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External links

* * Del Rey sample chapters: ** ''Witch'' �
Chapter One
** ''With Full Honors'' �

** ''The Prisoner Within'' �

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