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Seize The Day (2009)

by Richard Marcinko(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

076531794X (ISBN13: 9780765317940)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Forge Books

series

Rogue Warrior

review 1: The book Rogue Warrior: Seize The Day was a very colorful and interesting journey. Throughout the entire book it is a roller coaster ride of intense action and slow suspense as it follows "Rogue Warrior" Richard "Demo Dick" Marcinko through his operations in Cuba. Richard Marcinko is one of the most colorful characters I personally have ever read about, anybody who enjoys well developed characters who can be erratic, unbridled, and reckless would love Demo Dick and his team. His team includes Red, Mongoose, Shotgun, Doc, Trace and Junior. Red is a small Cuban with fire in her veins and Trace acts as her big sister type figure. Both Red and Trace are very similar in their temper and focus on missions but differ heavily in experience irrational risk taking. Mongoose and Shot... moregun are long time best friends Mongoose speaking fluent Spanish is a helpful asset in Cuba and Shotgun being a quite ruthless soldier, but always has an almost unnatural smile no matter what and has snack food at all times. Doc is the oldest of all the team members he has lots of combat experience but runs short on patience. Junior is the least experienced of everyone in the team and is supposedly Marcinko's son and his mother supposedly has DNA tests to prove it. The story takes the “lovable crew all around Cuba and South America with never ending twists, turns, complications and complex dilemmas. Countless gunfights and small ground wars as well as ghost like stealth operations happen on and off throughout the entirety of the book. This book was an action packed ride that had its moments of intense actions and other moments of slow suspense. I liked several aspects such as the action and story with that action, but I disliked several other thing as such as the exaggerated lengths of time between action that paused parts of the story. This book has its humor and it also has mountains of foul language, anybody that is faint of heart should not read this book. in short I really enjoyed this book because it appealed to my need for thrills and action combined with suspense and detail. I believe anybody could easily read this book and enjoy but if I had to choose a specific audience it would be anybody who enjoys books about war and undercover military operations mixed with humor and fun.Rating Scale:1: Meh2: ooohh *slightly interested*3: okay now this is getting good4: oh my god5: The book is amazing; best book everI rate this book around a 3.5 because its quite good but the swearing and dry humor gets to be a little much after about 450-500 pages. Also the constant ridicule of American agencies and forces gets quite annoying and excessive. I had times where I was sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for what would happen next and others where I was mind numbingly bored. It was definitely not a book i could just sit down and read for a long period of time the boredom and repetitiveness would be too overwhelming. This book is very similar to Act of Valor in the sense that both squads are Navy SEALs but then differ because the menin Act of Valor are not rogue renegades. Rogue warrior also connects in the stance that every man and woman on the team is a warrior with lethal precision.
review 2: I'd say this book is tied with "Dictator's Ransom" (Demo Dick's adventures with Kim Jong-Il in North Korea) as having the most outlandish and implausible plot of all the Rogue Warrior novels. In this one, Marcinko must impersonate none other than Fidel Castro, and even eventually go into Cuba and meet up with "The Beard" himself, with the infamous Mr. Murphy (or Murphy's Law infamy) dogging Dick and his intrepid teammates (Shotgun, Mongoose, Doc Tremblay, Trace Dahlgren, and Matthew "Junior" Loring) all the way. Implausible (like I already said), and furthermore, Demo Dik repeatedly violates his "Thou shalt never assume" Commandment (from his Rogue Warrior's Ten Commandments of SpecWar, which, along with the Glossary, have been conspicuously absent from the Rogue novels since Jim DeFelice replaced John Weisman as Marcinko's co-author), as he uses the "assuming" word over and over.And as an Air Force veteran, I realize the author doesn't respect what he calls the "Air Farce" [sic], but I wish he'd at least have the courtesy to spell our base names correctly; our base in Panama City is spelled "Tyndall," not "Tyndale!"That said, still well worth reading, for the rollicking action, humor, and biting geopolitical commentary present in all of the Rogue Warrior books, and also for its insights into Cuban history, culture, and geography. Hooyah. less

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