Richard Marcinko retired from the Navy as a full commander after more than thirty years of service. He currently lives in the Alexandria, Virginia, area, where he is CEO of SOS Temps Inc., his private security firm whose clients are governments and corporations; Richard Marcinko Inc., a motivational training and team-building company; and Red Cell International, Inc., which conducts vulnerability assessments of high-value properties and high-risk targets. He is the author of The Real Team; The Rogue Warrior's Strategy for Success: A Commando's Principles of Winning; and the four-month New York Times business bestseller Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success. Rogue Warrior, his #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography, set the stage for his bestselling Rogue Warrior novels, eight of which were coauthored with John Weisman. Visit Richard Marcinko's website at www.dickmarcinko.com.
Rogue Warrior
by Richard Marcinko, John Weisman (With), John Weisman (Foreword by)
Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9780671795931
- Publisher: Pocket Books
- Publication date: 03/01/1993
- Series: Rogue Warrior Series
- Pages: 416
- Sales rank: 14,038
- Product dimensions: 4.10(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.40(d)
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A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career and the riveting truth about the top-secret Navy SEALs.
Marcinko was almost inhumanly tough, and proved it on hair-raising missions across Vietnam and a war-torn world: blowing up supply junks, charging through minefields, jumping at 19,000 feet with a chute that wouldn't open, fighting hand-to-hand in a hellhole jungle. For the Pentagon, he organized the Navy's first counterterrorist unit: the legendary SEAL TEAM SIX, which went on classified missions from Central America to the Middle East, the North Sea, Africa and beyond.
Then Marcinko was tapped to create Red Cell, a dirty-dozen team of the military's most accomplished and decorated counterterrorists. Their unbelievable job was to test the defenses of the Navy's most secure facilities and installations. The result was predictable: all hell broke loose.
Here is the hero who saw beyond the blood to ultimate justice and the decorated warrior who became such a maverick that the Navy brass wanted his head on a pole, and for a time, got it. Richard Marcinko ROGUE WARRIOR.
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Rogue Warrior Invasion! Is it true or is it fiction? You're never entirely sure with retired Navy Commander Richard Marcinko, the renegade SEAL who founded the Red Cell counterterrorism team before turning to pen these bestselling tales of rogue warriors in action. Marcinko and cowriter Weisman take you inside the workings of the toughest fighting team in the world. The weapons, ships, submarines, and even the acronyms (you'll appreciate the glossary!) are all real. The story itself? Close enough that they'll have you wondering whether it's taken from some secret black operation with the details disguised to protect the innocent and guilty.
In Option Delta, Marcinko and his band of merry Rogue Warriors start off doing what they do best: covert insertion in order to wreak violence on a royal Arab who's dealing in tactical nuclear weapons, the kind that fit inside a suitcase (well, almost). They go in the SEAL way, locked out of a submarine and swimming. Picket ships armed with sonar, a band of grungy tangos ("terrorists" in SEAL-speak) onboard the target ship, Marcinko's bad air tank -- all small obstacles for the eight-man squad. Despite the continual intervention of Murphy and his ability to make things go wrong, the SEALs get onboard the boat, subdue the tangos, and capture the weapon. Only one problem: It's not a stolen Russian weapon -- it's an American one.
The ensuing brouhaha over the nuclear weapon brings up an even more frightening problem. During the cold war, the United States hid weapon caches around Europe, intended for emergency use to repel invading Soviet troops. Through downsizing and administrative screw-ups, the Department of Defense has sorta-kinda-maybe lost track of some of the weapons. Not that it's willing to admit it, particularly not since the lost site includes eight stashes of tactical nuclear weapons.
Marcinko hooks up with Army Colonel John Sutter, a kindred spirit who has also been tasked quietly with this mission impossible. Together they locate the missing weapons, track down the chain of tangos intent on finding and selling the weapons first, derail a mad German hunchback industrialist's plan to forge the next Teutonic empire, and generally make things safer for the free world. The plot circles the globe a couple of times as Marcinko unravels the sinister interests of the TIQ (tangos in question) and metes out justice SEAL-style.
Along the way to the action-packed conclusion, Marcinko shares with you his warrior philosophy and insights into military-political decision making. You'll find yourself nodding your head when he talks about the need for teams like his -- and also when the rogue warriors bypass the entrenched political and military rice bowls in order to arrive at the right answer, the one that keeps America safe. There's a need for men like this in the world, and Marcinko knows the gritty reality of fighting it out in the trenches while watching your back. You will, too, after reading Option Delta.
--C. A. Mobley
C. A. Mobley is a graduate of the Naval War College and author of the national bestsellers Rites of War andRules of Command. Other Mobley titles, published under the name C. W. Morton, include Pilots Die Faster and Rage Sleep.