Violence of Action
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VIOLENCE
OF ACTION
October 2002, ( 368 pages)
Hardcover |
Riding the wave of controversy
over Iraq, and dedicated "To the many heroes of September
11th," this 10th volume in the breathtakingly crude but bestselling
Rogue Warrior series again stars hairy-chested author/narrator
Capt. Dick Marcinko, ex-navy SEAL and covert-ops antiterrorism
expert. Licking his wounds after unjustly serving time in a white-collar
federal prison, Capt. Dick is called to Washington when the White
House is confronted with the theft of a suitcase-sized nuclear
bomb by a band of terrorists. After capturing one of the terrorists,
Dick's team tortures him into revealing the group's plan to nuke
Portland, Ore., as the first step in establishing ethnic purity
in the world. Marcinko may have jettisoned his longtime co-writer
John Weisman (whose name no longer appears on the title page),
but little else has changed. As in previous volumes, Dick is boorishly
self-aggrandizing (he boasts of bedroom swordsmanship with a 10-inch
saber), and the first-person narration is punctuated with personal
confidences that detract from the authentic descriptions of cutting-edge
high-tech military weapons and vivid action-packed scenes of engagement.
Bordering on comic book satire and saturated with gruesome, gratuitous
violence, the novel should fly off the shelves into the eager
hands of the rabid legions of blood and guts fantasy-fulfillment
RW readers.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business
Information, Inc.
Synopsis
Bolder, brasher, and badder than ever
before -- with an all-new team, the Rogue Warrior faces his ultimate
challenge.
A suitcase nuke is on its way to a
major American city, and there's only one man who can stop it. Back
from self-imposed exile, during which he recommitted himself to
the cause, and with a brand-new team of operatives straining at
the leash, the Rogue Warrior has entered a whole new phase of his
amazing career. The threat this time is from domestic terrorists
intent on a holy war -- military insiders gone bad -- and what's
worse, they possess suitcase-sized nuclear weapons. The city of
Portland, Oregon is under the ultimate threat, but what these dangerous
terrorists will find, however, is a new and improved Rogue Warrior
-- not only has age weathered him into the ultimate fighting machine,
but he's also got an entirely new team together, a multicultural
band of the toughest operatives available.
The ensuing chase to avoid nuclear
annihilation is ripped-from-the-headlines stuff, and takes the Rogue
Warrior to a new pitch, in which the very survival of his country
is at stake. Can Demo Dick and his new band of SEALs save the day,
or is America heading for destruction?
He's never had a harder task.... Is
he up to it, or has the Rogue Warrior finally met his match?
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