The Real Team »

Spotlights the Navy SEALs who served as the inspiration for the characters in the mega-selling Rogue Warrior series: Stevie Wonder, Snake, Minkster, Fingers, and a select number of the SEALS who made up SEAL Team Six. In spotlighting the team members, The Real Team adds depth and greater reality to the already-established persona of the Rogue Warrior and the future novels in the series. Told in Marcinko's unique first-person voice, the audiobook reveals how and why he chose the men he did to form one of the finest anti-terrorist units ever assembled.

Publishers Weekly

Even hardcore aficionados of the hairy-chested, adrenaline-fueled Marcinko and John Weisman Rogue Warrior novels (Rogue Warrior: Option Delta) will likely be disappointed by this medley of thumbnail, hero-worshipful autobiographies by 10 men associated with SEAL Team SIX, here identified as models for fictional characters in the highly successful series. Purporting to be an insiders guide to successful corporate team-building but overflowing with fulsome unsolicited testimonials for Marcinko, this testosterone-laden tribute is little more than an advertising ploy. Despite the seeming navet of these narratives, each prefaced with anecdotes from the Rogue Warrior himself, the small-town-boy-makes-good-and-saves-the-world theme quickly blurs into homogeneity. The not-so-subliminal message is that Marcinko is the worlds greatest corporate team builder, and the entire book becomes a commercial for the Rogue Warriors planned CrossRoads Training and Development Center for corporate leadership development. Readers with the right stuff will feel burned by this blatant exercise in self-promotion.