Peter T. Deutermann was born in 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Lieutenant Commander (later Vice Admiral) and Mrs. Peter T Deutermann was born 27 December 1941 in Boston Massachusetts, the son of Lieutenant Commander (later Vice Admiral) and Mrs The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Lieutenant Commander ( Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy) is a Commissioned officer rank in many navies Superior Vice Admiral is a naval rank equivalent to Lieutenant General in seniority H. T. Deutermann. The family moved in 1944 to La Jolla, California, where they lived until the end of the Second World War in the Pacific. La Jolla (ləˈhɔɪə "luh-HOY-uh") is a wealthy Seaside resort community of up to 42808 residents within the city of San Diego, California California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Between the end of the war and 1959, when Peter entered the Naval Academy, the family lived in various places throughout the United States and also in Argentina. A Naval Academy is a national institution that provides undergraduate level education for prospective Naval officers Many nations support naval academies some of which are For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Peter Deutermann attended parochial, public, and Jesuit high schools, graduating from Creighton Prep in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1959. Nebraska ( is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and He was commissioned in 1963 at Annapolis into the surface line, where he was ordered to the new destroyer USS Morton (DD-948). Annapolis is the capital of the US state of Maryland, as well as the County seat of Anne Arundel County. History After a training cruise in the Caribbean, she proceeded to the West Coast arriving NS San Diego, Calif He served in Morton for two years, and was onboard for the second Gulf of Tonkin incident in September,1964, which precipitated the first significant aircraft carrier strikes against North Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin, in Vietnamese: Vịnh Bắc Bộ or in Chinese: Beibu Wan is an arm of the South China Sea. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN or less commonly Vietnamese Democratic Republic (Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa was a Country on the northern half of Vietnam

Following his tour in Morton, he was assigned to class 13 of the destroyer department head school in Newport, Rhode Island. Newport (Casnewydd is a city and principal area in Wales, in the United Kingdom. Rhode Island ( officially named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States Upon graduation he was diverted from the destroyer forces to Coronado, California, to train in the new Swift class gunboats. Upon completion of training, he went to Manila, Philippine Islands, as officer in charge of a mobile training team which trained Philippine navy crews to use Swift boats against the pirates plaguing Manila Bay and the waters off Corregidor. The City of Manila The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP From Manila, he went in-country Vietnam as officer in charge of PCF-39, based at the mouth of the main Mekong river channel that led up to Saigon. The Mekong is one of the world’s major Rivers It is the 11th-longest river in the world and 7th longest in Asia After a year there, he was assigned as operations officer in USS Hull (DD-945), which operated intermittently for the next two years off the coasts of North and South Vietnam providing naval gunfire support for Army and marine forces ashore. Four ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Hull, in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull.

In 1968, he married Susan Cornelia Degenhardt, of Gainesville, Florida, and went off to two years at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where he was awarded a masters degree in public administration and international law. Gainesville is the name of several places in the United States of America: Gainesville Alabama Gainesville Florida, Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the See Washington (disambiguation for other uses The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research University Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Following graduate school, he returned in 1970 to the Pacific Fleet as operations officer of the guided missile cruiser Jouett (CG-29). A month later, the ship went back to Vietnam, serving as the overall air warfare commander in the Gulf of Tonkin and also as a recovery ship for downed navy and air force pilots. During that deployment the ship visited Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, and the Philippines. In 1972, he went to the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, for one year. The Naval War College (NWC is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for Naval warfare and passing them Newport (Casnewydd is a city and principal area in Wales, in the United Kingdom. Rhode Island ( officially named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States He was then assigned to The Pentagon for three years, serving on a joint command and control computer integration project. The Pentagon is the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia.

Following shore duty, he returned to sea, this time in the Atlantic Fleet as executive officer of the guided missile destroyer USS C. F. Adams (DDG-2), which made two deployments to the Mediterranean over the following two years. He returned to the Pentagon in 1978 as a staff officer in the politico-military policydivision of the navy headquarters staff. He published his first book in 1980, a handbook for navy operations officers, through the Naval Institute Press in Annapolis, Maryland. The U S Naval Institute (USNI, based at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland, is a non-profit professional military association that seeks to offer independent In 1981, he assumed command of the guided missile destroyer Tattnall (DDG-19) for a three year tour of duty, which included combat operations off Lebanon. Following that assignment he was ordered to be the executive secretary to the Chief of Naval Operations for JCS matters in Washington, D. C. In late 1985, he assumed command of Destroyer Squadron 25, based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for two years, during which he made one deployment to the Indian Ocean, where he visited Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, and Japan.

Upon conclusion of the Pearl Harbor tour of duty, he was assigned to the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) in London, England, for one year. Pearl Harbor is a Harbor on the Island of O{{okina}}ahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. The Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS is an internationally-renowned institution and component of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The RCDS was an international course studying the influence of military affairs on geopolitics, whose members represented forty different countries. In 1988 he returned to the Pentagon as the head of the Strategy Planning branch on the navy staff. He was then assigned as the division director of the arms control negotiations office concerned with chemical, biological, and radiation weapons on the joint staff. He was appointed as a technical delegate to the United Nations, and participated in arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union in Geneva. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 He retired from active duty after 26 years in 1989 with nineteen military awards and decorations. He then worked successively for three companies over the next four years which supported the Federal Aviation Administration in the procurement of large scale computer systems. The Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA) is an agency of the United States Department of Transportation with authority to regulate and oversee all aspects of

He published his first fiction novel, Scorpion in the Sea, in 1992 through the George Mason University Press. This book landed him an agent, and then a contract with St. Martins Press in 1993, with whom he has published all of his successive novels. St Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the iconic Flatiron Building in New York City. Three of the books have been optioned for feature film development, and the audio versions of the books are published by Brilliance Audio in both abridged and unabridged versions. Foreign translation rights have been sold into Japan, China, Spain, England and the British Commonwealth, Poland, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Russia, the Czech Republic, to name some.

Mr. Deutermann and Susan live in Rockingham County, North Carolina, where he helps her run her Dartmoor pony breeding farm. North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States Dartmoor is an area of Moorland in the centre of Devon, England. In the past ten years, Mr. Deutermann has served on the board of directors for two high-tech companies, and on the board of advisors of the SpaceVest Venture Capital Group in Washington, D. C. Their son, Daniel, is a Coast Guard helicopter pilot. Their daughter, Sarah, flew in navy F-14 fighter jets and now works for Booz-Allen-Hamilton Consulting. Two of Mr. Deutermann's uncles, his father, and both his brothers served in the armed forces, as have some of their children. There has been a Deutermann on active military duty continuously since 1920. Mr. Deutermann's hobbies include the design and construction of formal gardens, reading American civil war history, and the study of the first century Roman Near East. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South He is currently at work on his twelfth novel. The eleventh, called Spider Mountain, will be published in January, 2007.

Fiction

• Spider Mountain (novel) (2007)
• The Cat Dancers (novel) (2005)
• The Firefly (novel) (2003)
• Darkside (novel) (2002)
• Hunting Season (novel) (2001)
• Train Man (novel) (1999)
• Zero Option (novel) (1998)
• Sweepers (novel) (1997)
• Official Privilege (novel) (1995)
• Edge Of Honor (novel) (1994)
• Scorpion In The Sea (novel) (1992)

Non-Fiction

• The Ops Officer's Manual (novel)

External links

• Official Site

Deutermann's birth date is 27 December, 1941

The Ops Officer's Manual was a textbook, not a novel

SPIDER MOUNTAIN was published in January, 2007; The next book, THe Moonpool, will be published in June, 2008

(submitted by P. Darkside is a children's novel by Tom Becker, about a boy called Johnathon who discovers a world hidden in London a world run by Jack the Ripper's family T. Deutermann)