Rogue Warrior, Richard Marcinko
Rogue Warrior, Richard Marcinko
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Rogue Warrior
Operation: Delta

Author: Richard Marcinko, John Weisman

Narrator: Richard Marcinko

Abridged: 2 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/1999


Synopsis

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.

About Richard Marcinko

Richard Marcinko was a US Navy SEAL commander and Vietnam War veteran. He was the first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six. After retiring from the navy, he became an author, radio host, military consultant, and motivational speaker. He is the author of The Rogue Warrior®’s Strategy for Success: A Commando’s Principles of Winning, and the New York Times business bestseller Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando’s Guide to Success. In addition to his bestselling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, he coauthored with John Weisman the New York Times bestselling novels Rogue Warrior: Red Cell, Rogue Warrior: Green Team, Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue, Rogue Warrior: Designation Gold, Rogue Warrior: Seal Force Alpha, Rogue Warrior: Option Delta, and Rogue Warrior: Echo Platoon. He died on December 25, 2021.

About John Weisman

John Weisman is one of the select company of authors to have written both fiction and nonfiction New York Times bestsellers. In 1992 he wrote Rogue Warrior with Richard Marcinko. That book, Marcinko's autobiography and the story of the U.S. Navy's elite counterterrorism unit, SEAL Team Six, spent eight months on the Times bestseller list, including four weeks at number one. The sequels, Rogue Warrior: Red Cell, Rogue Warrior: Green Team, Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue, Rogue Warrior: Designation Gold, and Rogue Warrior: Seal Force Alpha were all New York Times bestsellers. Weisman was appointed a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Washington Program for Communications Policy Studies of Northwestern University in 1989. Prior to that, he wrote hundreds of articles for publications that run the gamut from the Columbia Journalism Review to Soldier of Fortune. He has lectured on media and writing at the National War College at Fort Leslie J. McNair, the American University, Cornell University, and Longwood College. His books include the nonfiction bestseller Shadow Warrior, the life story of Felix Rodriguez, the CIA agent who captured Che Guevara, which was the subject of a 60 Minutes segment. His previous novels include Evidence, Watchdogs, and Blood Cries. His acclaimed CIA short story "There Are Monsterim" can be found in the current anthology Unusual Suspects. Weisman was born in New York City in 1942. He attended the Birch Wathen School and Bard College. He divides his time between homes in the Washington, DC area and the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. He can be reached via email at jweisman@ix.netcom.com


Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott Walker on May 25, 2015

Not Really Worth the Time On the Plus Side: Much of the writing is in complete sentences; there are complete sentences that do not include profanity; and there are whole pages where we are spared the author's way-predictable political insights. Oh, and the good guys win, and there aren't any female c......more

Goodreads review by Ed on April 19, 2016

#7 in the Rogue Warrior series written by Marcinko, Richard & Weisman, John. Special Warfare - fiction - The Rogue Warrior tackles Lothar Beck, an ultra-right wing German billionaire who has acquired some American nuclear devices.......more

Goodreads review by Tomáš on October 06, 2015

Jeden ze slabších dílů, ale pořád to dobře odsýpalo.......more

Goodreads review by RK on October 02, 2009

this guy's hilarious! can't see reading a whole series of this stuff, tho.......more

Goodreads review by Greg on April 26, 2014

Another great rogue story. By now his books seem to be getting predictable. Still a fun action packed, profanity filled novel. I expected nothing more, nothing less.......more