A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units,SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career -- and the riveting truth about the top-secret Navy SEALs.Marcinko was almost inhumanly tough, and proved it on hair-raising missions across Vietnam and a war-torn world: blowing up supply junks, charging through minefields, jumping at 19,000 feet with a chute that wouldn't open, fighting hand-to-hand in a hellholejungle. For the Pentagon, he organized the Navy's first counterterrorist unit: the legendarySEAL TEAM SIX, which went on classified missions from Central America to the Middle East, the North Sea, Africa and beyond.Then Marcinko was tapped to createRed Cell, a dirty-dozen team of the military's most accomplished and decorated counterterrorists. Their unbelievable job was to test the defenses of the Navy's most secure facilities and installations. The result was predictable: all hell broke loose.Here is the hero who saw beyond the blood to ultimate justice -- and the decorated warrior who became such a maverick that the Navy brass wanted his head on a pole, and for a time, got it. Richard Marcinko --ROGUE WARRIOR.

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 whose clients are governments and corporations, and Richard Marcinko Inc., a motivational training and team-building company. 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. In addition to his bestselling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, he is coauthor with John Weisman of the New York Times bestselling Rogue Warrior novels. John Weisman is one of the select company of writers to have both fiction and nonfiction New York Times bestsellers. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the novels Evidence and Blood Cries, and the nonfiction bestseller Shadow Warrior, the biography of CIA agent Felix Rodriguez. His much-acclaimed short story, "There Are Monsterim," was selected for inclusion in the Best American Mystery Stories: 1997, edited by Robert B. Parker. For the past half decade, Weisman has been informally associated with the Heckler and Koch International Training Division, where he war-games many of the scenarios for these novels. Weisman, his wife-a U.S. State Department official-and their three dogs live in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. John Weisman can be e-mailed at jweisman@ix.netcom.com.