Vengeance (Rogue Warrior) [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]

Richard Marcinko (Author), Jim DeFelice (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 31, 2005

The Rogue Warrior® walks the razor's edge of alarming reality in this blazing thriller of the war on terror. Former SEAL Team Six leader Richard Marcinko and his Red Cell II team give Homeland Security a wake-up call with a series of simulated terror attacks. But there's nothing fake about the railroad bridge wired with explosives -- or the dismembered corpse -- the team unearths while they're busy scaring the daylights out of the American public. With the enemy on the brink of unleashing hell on U.S. soil, the Rogue Warrior launches an all-out international manhunt. And when it's clear that Marcinko himself is a moving target, Demo Dick wants more than dead terrorists -- he wants vengeance. . . .

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

As usual, Marcinko's indestructible hero of his Rogue Warrior series is... himself. This time around (his 11th), Marcinko and his ex-military Rogue Warriors, operating as a private security company, are pulling off very successful attack exercises on transportation and energy targets in the U.S. While Marcinko and his pals are embarrassing the Department of Homeland Security (and offering hilariously deadpan, expletive-filled assessments of the government's performance), someone is sending Marcinko deadly messages, with more in mind than a public relations kerfuffle. As Marcinko investigates the puzzling clues, a cloudy picture emerges of Bosnian Muslim terrorists, smuggling, a missing French intelligence agent, strange connections to the Vietnam War and a very real threat of another major terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The story rushes from one pile of dead bodies to the next and ends with an exciting showdown at the Las Vegas Sands. While the action is tight (and spiked with cool super-spook technology), the villains' motives and malice are weak and unconvincing. Marcinko's highly profane first person remains as funny and charming as ever, though, and fans won't be disappointed.
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From Booklist

The Rogue Warrior and new collaborator DeFelice continue with another hard-boiled thriller starring Marcinko himself, with a high body count, lots of hot tubs containing interesting women, breakneck pacing, and positive loathing for chair-warming bureaucrats masquerading as warriors. The plot evolves from Marcinko's return to his old specialty--testing security arrangements--this time for Homeland Security, which has him breaching truck depots, nuclear power plants, and railroad bridges. The ease with which he penetrates them is rather alarming and may offer lay reader and security professional alike some useful clues. Marcinko the yarnspinner offers growing tension as it becomes obvious that somebody's out to get Marcinko the Rogue Warrior. Who and why are revealed in the context of a knock-down-drag-out against terrorists with a grudge. Although it is beset with the strengths and weaknesses of Marcinko's previous Rogue Warrior fancies, supply it to the series' established audience. Roland Green
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• ISBN-10: 0743422473
• ASIN: B000H2M3QU
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sorry Dick....., February 16, 2006

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David F. Mamrak "Mamrak" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vengeance (Rogue Warrior) (Hardcover)

My interest in the Marcinko books has tailed off since John Weisman quit writing the stories. Let's face it, Marcinko gives his "ghost writer" the basic outline of a story, then tells him to write the novel. "Violence of Action" was abysmal. "Vengeance" is slightly better, but the bloom is off the rose at this point in time with the Marcinko books. Just go back and read the first two or three novels in the series and see what I mean. I only hope Marcinko stops right now before everyone forgets how the first few books truly excited his fans.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better..., August 4, 2005

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Jeffrey S. Stanley "Viper_29" (Houston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vengeance (Rogue Warrior) (Hardcover)

Well, I waited along with everyone else for years for this book to come out. I bought it the day it was released after watching online for the date that it would be released. I have been a hugh Marcinko fan and loved the first set of books he wrote with Weisman. I always felt like I was in the trenches with the Rogue, Boomerang, Stevie Wonder, Nod, Gator and the others. These are the guys I want to read about. I was slightly dissapointed with Violence of Action due to the fact that the original team wasn't in it. Trace was a different take but soon possesed the superwoman portrait and that got old really fast.

With Vengeance, I see the new members of the team that are introduced and have to wonder why is ol Dick surround by a bunch of kids? The ending was really a disappointment with this book. I don't want to give anything away, but the ending really lacked any of Dick's trademark action to me. I kept thinking that I was going to see someone I recognized at the end but what we got was kinda made me laugh. Bring back Weisman and get the original "plank" owners back in the action.

Atleast Doc makes a great return but again I felt that the ol Rogue Warrior comes off more as a baby sitter in this book than a warrior. I will stick with the Rogue, just hope that the next book can find it's roots again.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a page turner, July 1, 2006

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BookFanatic "Bob" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vengeance (Rogue Warrior) (Mass Market Paperback)

It's time for Dick to just sit on the porch with his glass of Bombay Sapphire and stop publishing books. Vengeance was extremely tired and boring, no plot and extremely unbelievable. It takes more than glitzy locations and fancy guns to make a story. It also doesn't take a SEAL to make Homeland Security look bad. As Dick has admitted himself, an expert can cause minimum wage flunkies to fail every time. The book just never gets started.

Which is a shame, since the original Rogue Warrior is on my list of all-time great books. Dick had a colorful and heroic past which most of us can only envy.