OPTION DELTA: ROGUE WARRIOR (Rogue Warrior Series)

The Rogue Warrior leads a mission into Germany during which he is directed to recover a pair of U.S. Atomic Demolition Munitions lost in the Rhine Valley but encounters additional challenges from the terrorists he encounters there. 85,000 first printing. Tour.

Marcinko's Rogue Warrior yarns, always coauthored, always starring himself, are the purest kind of thriller around, with action, pacing, and hardware galore. This one begins with Marcinko and team "locking out" of an attack submarine to take out the yacht of an Arab prince, who bankrolls terrorists and has even provided them with nuclear weapons stolen from arms dumps the U.S. hid in Europe during the cold war. Marcinko, his team, and a West German general wind up on the trail of a rightwing German industrialist and a renegade German special-operations warrior. At trail's end, the good guys have the ADMs (Atomic Demolitions Munitions), and a lot of bad guys are dead or out of commission. This classic crowd-pleaser also offers yet more insight into the psychology of special and covert operations and yet more fight scenes choreographed by one who has actually done them, and it raises the disturbing question: Are nuclear weapons already in the hands of the perverse and peculiar? Great fun, more intelligent than you may think. Roland Green