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Investigating the murder of his friend at the hands of a Russian godfather, who has also died suspiciously, the Rogue Warrior uncovers a political conspiracy that leads to an attempt to disband the SEALs.
Author Notes
Author, businessman and motivational speaker Richard Marcinko joined the Navy in 1958, eventually working his way up to captain and becoming commander of two celebrated counter-terrorist units, Seal Team Six and Red Cell. He attended the Navy Post Graduate School and Auburn University.
Marcinko has mined his military experience to write books such as Rogue Warrior, which formed the basis for the fictional Rogue Warrior series, written with John Weisman. He has also written business books such as Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior and The Rogue Warrior's Strategy for Success.
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Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
"I am the War Lord and the wrathful God of Combat and I will always lead you from the front, not the rear. I will treat you all alikejust like shit." These first two of "The Rogue Warrior's Ten Commandments of Specwar," posted at the beginning of Marcinko and Weisman's latest exercise in literary violence (after Task Force Blue), sum up the authors' macho approach. Even so, thick-skinned readers might relish the second commandment. As before, Marcinko casts himself as hero. He is in Russia and on a personal vendetta to extract revenge against whomever assassinated his old friend Rear Admiral Paul Mahon, along with Mahon's family, including Marcinko's godson, Adam. The Rogue Warrior connects Russian crooks with U.S. and Syrian arms dealers. His roughest opposition, as usual, comes in the form of America's stick-in-the-mud bureaucrats, but he must battle Russian thugs as well until he completes his case against a venal diplomat and a merciless arms merchant. As Lovejoy is to antiques, Marcinko is to martial arts. An ex-SEAL, he continues his instructional monologues on weapons, tactics and history even as he is plunging fist or weapon into somebody's flesh. He manages to throw salient jabs at America's security apparatus, too. Readers partial to Marcinko and Weisman's fierce brand of escapism will find this bottling to be vintage and undeniably potent. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Following the assassination of an American military attach in the former USSR, the Pentagon sends Marcinko on a priority (Designation Gold) mission to Moscow with orders to investigate the brutal murder. A sometime Navy SEAL (whose real-life exploits in Vietnam were chronicled in the 1992 bestseller Rogue Warrior), Marcinko has had an active (if fictive) post-retirement career in which he offers caustic first-person accounts of dirty jobs done for low-profile agencies of the US government (Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue, 1996, etc.). On this outing, the salty soldier of fortune raises enough homicidal hell with mafiya goons and corrupt officials to get himself expelled from Russia. Although scarcely more welcome in Washington's upper echelons, he has come away with evidence that minions of the Kremlin are smuggling nuclear material to Syria through Werner Lantos, a shady Hungarian middleman who works out of Paris. Joining forces with Avi Ben Gal (an old pal from Israel's security service), Tricky Dick heads for the City of Light, where he and his three-man team learn that the venal go-between is at the heart of a vast conspiracy to restore the erstwhile Soviet Union's superpower status and trigger a renewal of the Cold War. While well-placed traitors in their own governments resist them at every turn, Dick and Avi resourcefully manage to mount an airborne raid on a covert atomic-weapons installation near Damascus. In a climactic engagement notable for their unwonted reliance on guile as well as firepower, the two lay waste to the secret ordnance facility, bag the reptilian Lantos, and determine who should pay for the transnational plot's near-miss horrors. With sociopolitical asides (on Bill Clinton, equal employment opportunity in the armed forces, and allied targets of opportunity) as hard-hitting as the narrative action, the aging but perdurably macho man delivers another diverting road show. (Author tour)
Library Journal Review
The Rogue Warrior swings into action following an assassination by the Russian Mafia. After best sellers Red Cell, Green Team, and Task Force Blue, Marcinko is clearly going for the gold. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.