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The Real Team

by Richard Marcinko
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Overview

Spotlights the Navy SEALs who served as the inspiration for the characters in the mega-selling Rogue Warrior series: Stevie Wonder, Snake, Minkster, Fingers, and a select number of the SEALS who made up SEAL Team Six. In spotlighting the team members, The Real Team adds depth and greater reality to the already-established persona of the Rogue Warrior and the future novels in the series. Told in Marcinko's unique first-person voice, the audiobook reveals how and why he chose the men he did to form one of the finest anti-terrorist units ever assembled.

About the Author, Richard Marcinko

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 β€” 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.

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Editorials

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Even hardcore aficionados of the hairy-chested, adrenaline-fueled Marcinko and John Weisman Rogue Warrior novels (Rogue Warrior: Option Delta) will likely be disappointed by this medley of thumbnail, hero-worshipful autobiographies by 10 men associated with SEAL Team SIX, here identified as models for fictional characters in the highly successful series. Purporting to be an insiders guide to successful corporate team-building but overflowing with fulsome unsolicited testimonials for Marcinko, this testosterone-laden tribute is little more than an advertising ploy. Despite the seeming navet of these narratives, each prefaced with anecdotes from the Rogue Warrior himself, the small-town-boy-makes-good-and-saves-the-world theme quickly blurs into homogeneity. The not-so-subliminal message is that Marcinko is the worlds greatest corporate team builder, and the entire book becomes a commercial for the Rogue Warriors planned CrossRoads Training and Development Center for corporate leadership development. Readers with the right stuff will feel burned by this blatant exercise in self-promotion.

Book Details

Published
June 28, 1999
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pages
261
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780671024642

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