Marcinko's Navy Seal commandos cut, blast, and cuss their way around modern Germany as they take on a would-be Hitler and wipe out him and nearly everyone around him. Marcinko exposes us to a military culture in which a shooter (warrior) is identifiable by greater and greater extremes of foul, insulting language. As reader, Marcinko brings a certain versimilitude to the narrative by the ease with which he handles both technical and scatalogical terminology. But he reads too fast, almost tumbling over himself on numerous occasions. Although the breathless pace is sometimes exciting, the listener is left benumbed by the kaleidoscopic speed and the incendiary phraseology. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine--
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Marcinko's Rogue Warrior yarns, always coauthored, always starring himself, are the purest kind of thriller around, with action, pacing, and hardware galore. This one begins with Marcinko and team "locking out" of an attack submarine to take out the yacht of an Arab prince, who bankrolls terrorists and has even provided them with nuclear weapons stolen from arms dumps the U.S. hid in Europe during the cold war. Marcinko, his team, and a West German general wind up on the trail of a rightwing German industrialist and a renegade German special-operations warrior. At trail's end, the good guys have the ADMs (Atomic Demolitions Munitions), and a lot of bad guys are dead or out of commission. This classic crowd-pleaser also offers yet more insight into the psychology of special and covert operations and yet more fight scenes choreographed by one who has actually done them, and it raises the disturbing question: Are nuclear weapons already in the hands of the perverse and peculiar? Great fun, more intelligent than you may think.
Roland Green
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