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| Rogue Warrior: Seize the Day (Rogue Warrior (Forge)) |  | Authors: Richard Marcinko, Jim DeFelice
Publisher: Forge Books
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Seller: pbshopus
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 25,060
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 076531794X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765317940
ASIN: 076531794X
Publication Date: October 13, 2009
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When Marcinko’s “friend,” the head of the CIA, asks him to spend a little quality time in Cuba, the Rogue Warrior finds there’s no way to say no. Once there, Marcinko and company discover that Fidel Castro is on his deathbed. Which wouldn’t be so bad, except that he’s planned a catastrophic surprise for the U.S. as his going-away present. The Rogue Warrior must find out the nature of that little surprise and thwart it before Castro kicks the bucket.
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The Rogue Warrior is still alive and kicking.... March 1, 2010
Andrew (RET USAF)
This is not a bad installment in the Rogue Warrior series. It does lack that knockout punch that the books used to deliver years ago. I was rather hoping for the old "salt and spice" that the previous books have delivered. If you are a fan of the RW books then I would recommend this book to you. I am an avid reader of the series and will continue to be. I did like how true to life characters were in the book. Having Fidel Castro in the story made it an interesting book. I am wondering if Saddam or Bin Laden are in the works for the next book.... I wouldn't mind reading how the Rogue Warrior sharpened his knives on their bones.... I do look forward to the next book. If you are new to the Rogue Warrior books then get your hands on the first one and catch up with the rest of us.
 Mostly unbelievable December 24, 2009
Shirley W. Money
I've read every book in the series and this book would be rated the lowest. If you've previously read several of Marcinko's books, you might get some enjoyment from this, as you know the characters and presumably like Marcinko's style. If this is your first Marcinko book, you probably won't like it very much.
In the last book, I was willing to believe that Marcinko could operate successfully in North Korea, even if the premise seemed far-fetched. But breaking into Castro's lairs all over Cuba is even less credible.
 Marcinko does it again November 16, 2009
Michael W. Kelber (Salem, OR)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Once again, Demo Dick shows he hasn't lost it in either writing or blowing up the bad guys. Don't start this book unless you have the time to finish it as you won't want to put it down. Besides Trace and many of the "usual suspects", a newbie character is introduced, who should factor in frequently in future books.
 Rogue Warrior delivers about what you'd expect November 9, 2009
Jay C. Tipnis (McLean, VA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read the first "Rogue Warrior" book (the actual autobiography) when I was in college and after the fictional series kicked off I continued to read the books with interest. One of the things that I enjoyed about was Mr. Marcinko's attention to the details on how things were accomplished. If you read many of the early books the plot may have seemed to have been drawn from your average action movie but what set a lot of them apart for me was their attention to helping the reader get how the actual operation was done.
Now I understand that certain specifics can't and shouldn't be released as they could comporomise actual operators in the field but there was just enough that the average reader could understand (and gain an appreciation) of just what elite warriors like Marcinko's Navy SEALs actually do. A lot of his earlier books included those details which helped bring a sense of "this could happen" to the stories but as the series has progressed the details have dwindled and the "this couldn't happen" factors have increased.
I'm not spoiling anything by stating that one of the main plots in the book involves the fact that Marcinko bears an uncanny resemblence to Fidel Castro and what can happen when CIA attempts to use that to their advantage. Now if you'll note, I did say "plots" which means there are a few others but unlike in some of the earlier books Marcinko doesn't delve into too many details on his team. I think part of it is that by now he must know (or ASSume) that his readers are familiar enough with his style of writing and his usual cast of characters not to require any sort of background and though I profess to being one of those readers who doesn't need all the details, it still wouldn't hurt as it's been a while since I read his last adventure.
And speaking of adventures, although the main plot is not all that far fetched, it still lends itself to being picked apart simply because of what I mentioned earlier; a lack of details. Although part of the story occurs in Cuba there aren't really enough details (which Marcinko and his co-authors have been good at providing in the past) and more focus on moving from one action scene to the next. I think that Marcinko can write some decent adventure books and has plenty more stories to tell us but I think he needs to pick up the pace just a bit after his last few outings. So if you're looking for details on how to infiltrate a hospital or how to outfit a team ready to take down a bunker, don't look here. At least not for the details.
RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "COMMANDER MARCINKO & FIDEL CASTRO... SEPARATED AT BIRTH??" November 4, 2009
Rick Shaq Goldstein (Danville, Ca, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the fourteenth installment in the "fictional" "Rogue Warrior" series by former Seal Richard Marcinko. This episode is built around the CIA making the astute observation that Demo Dick looks almost exactly like Cuban dictator Fidel Castro... minus a few years. The CIA comes up with the brainchild of having a video made of Dick after hair and makeup adjustments to film a speech of Marcinko/Castro making a last will and testament. Dick goes through the physical manifestations and then the CIA's technical gurus will integrate the speech. Marcinko isn't real cool on the idea... especially when the CIA also wants the author to go to Cuba to make the handoff of the bogus DVD to an agent who supposedly will swap the fake DVD for the real one(s) at fortified locations within Cuba. But... lo and behold the barber the CIA has at the filming is an elderly Cuban Roberto Traba who before fleeing Cuba cut Castro's hair. Traba tells all of the personal trauma he and his family had gone through in Cuba before they exiled... and then sadly tells Marcinko and his team that his brother is still stuck in Cuba. Traba's story steals the heart of Marcinko's crew and that along with the CIA saying they'll make sure Marcinko is paid for a prior mission that's been held up in government red tape if he accepts the job... how could our cuddly trained killer... the one and only *ROGUE WARRIOR* say no to that?
Dick introduces-re-introduces his motley crew and we're on the way to Cuba. The crew member who gets the most entertaining role is "Shotgun" who is six-feet-eight-inches-tall and at least three-hundred-pounds. The world can be coming to an end and Shotgun will be laughing and eating innumerable species of junk food... especially Twinkies. After a harrowing (what other kind does the Rogue Warrior ever encounter) flight to Cuba that is overflowing with FUBAR... MR. MURPHY... GOAT-SEX ANALOGIES... and unlimited words of descriptive military "terms of endearment"... we have double agents... exploding cars... killed double agents... and alligator attacks. All of this is in the normal Rogue Warrior tongue in cheek manner. But since the DVD handoff goes awry... and this is where the book loses its five star rating... the team on its own has to break into multiple Castro secure locations. Including but not limited to: his bunker... his homes... political headquarters... hospitals... etc. Even in a fun fiction book the ease of this and the portrayal of terrible "Keystone-Cop-Like" Cuban security at every twist and turn... takes the luster off after awhile.
While all this is going on... Dick gets forced by the same CIA to go to Panama and assist in putting a halt to a Venezuelan/Chinese criminal endeavor involving a submarine at the Panama Canal... OR... (believe me this is not a spoiler) they won't assist the *ROGUE WARRIOR* in extricating a team member "left-behind".
If you're a *ROGUE WARRIOR* fan this is an enjoyable book... but even the truest longtime hardcore admirer will want to say "please give me credit for some common sense" re: the difficulties of going to a foreign country and being able to break in to any building regardless of the situation.
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