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Overview
AS A U.S. NAVY SEAL, RICHARD MARCINKO KNEW NO LIMITS — AS THE ROGUE WARRIOR, HE OBEYS NO RULES!
SpecWar master Richard Marcinko has revealed classified, kill-or-be-killed operations in a series of New York Times bestsellers: Rogue Warrior, his #1 blockbuster autobiography, and four scorching Rogue Warrior novels. Now in an electrifying new adventure, the Rogue Warrior battles an ultra-secret, ultra-lethal military plot.
The Rogue Warrior's taking a flying leap — a high-altitude jump over the South China Sea. His mission: scuttle a Chinese freighter's cargo of nuclear hardware and its crack crew of naval commandos. It's a leave-no-tracks, take-no-prisoners operation — in short, business as usual. But on board Marcinko makes a chilling discovery: a cache of state-of-the-art command and control equipment, all made in the U.S.A. — and primed for America's destruction!
Marcinko takes his findings back to Washington, where he runs into a wall of doublespeak and double deals. But not everyone wants to see America go down the drain. General Tom Crocker, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, unleashes the SEALs of war — Marcinko and a Pentagon-based unit, SEAL Force Alpha — to neutralize a global maze of political deceit that begins all too close to home.
The Chinese sense victory. They have a mole in the White House, and five thousand years of military strategy on their side. But neither the traitor nor all the wisdom of Sun Tzu are prepared for Marcinko and his men. They, after all, live by the Rogue Warrior's Tenth Commandment of SpecWar: "There Are No Rules — Thou Shalt Win At All Cost."
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewMarch 1998
Seal Force Alpha is the latest novel in the action-packed Rogue Warrior series, written by Richard Marcinko and John Weisman. In it, the author's namesake protagonist, Marcinko (a.k.a. the Rogue Warrior), must infiltrate a Chinese cargo freighter carrying nuclear hardware — and staffed with a crew of naval commandos. Marcinko's Navy SEAL training has prepared him to be in tough situations before. What he isn't prepared for is the discovery that the state-of-the-art arsenal on board — all made in the U.S.A. — is headed straight for America.
When Marcinko reports his findings to Washington, he finds himself outside the steel walls of a cover-up — it was Washington that unwittingly gave its supreme technology to its fiercest rival. Now China is hell-bent on turning America into a third-world country.
Amid conspiracy and locked doors, the Rogue Warrior is able to recruit General Tom Cocker and his highly trained SEALs in the battle against China — and a White House blind to the threat.
In Seal Force Alpha, the Rogue Warrior confronts his toughest crisis yet. But living by the Tenth Commandment of Spec War, "There Are No Rules — Thou Shalt Win at All Costs," Marcinko makes sure that America's fate is no longer sealed.
Marcinko's details from his own life about the inner workings of Washington and the skills required of a Navy SEAL make this latest installment in the Rogue Warrior series an adventure teeming with excitement.
From the Publisher
Sean Piccoli Washington Times In a field of wanna-bes, Marcinko is the real thing: combat veteran, killer SEAL, specialist in unconventional warfare....Publishers Weekly Marcinko gives new meaning to the word tough.
Publishers Weekly
Never let it be said that the Rogue isn't topical. During an attack on the Chinese equivalent of his own Navy SEALs, author/hero Marcinko finds top-secret American electronic equipment. This discovery leads him into the murky waters of American influence-peddling and bureaucratic incompetence (the latter personified by Marcinko's familiar nemesis, consummate Pentagon desk-driver RADM Pickney Prescott III). The foul-mouthed commando and his warrior bandBoomerang, Pick, Duck Foot and Half Pintgo about their business of killing people and breaking things by jumping from airplanes, crawling through underbrush and sneaking into palazzos, while Marcinko pauses the action every page or two to brief us on the tactics and mentality it takes to be what he calls a "Marcinko SEAL." Making further pit-stops for humor, Roguish philosophy and patriotic speechifying (none of them beyond the grasp of an intelligent fourth-grader), Marcinko leads a predictable, bloody mission against national threats located overseas and inside the Beltway.Library Journal
Now that the Russians are off limits, who is the Rogue Warrior (hero of four best sellers) supposed to battle? The Chinese, of course.Sean Piccoli
In a field of wanna—be's, Marcinko is the real thing: combat veteran, killer SEAL, specialist in unconventional warfare…—Sean Piccoli, Washington Times