Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice, Vengeance

Vengeance By Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice

Rich Armstead of Homeland Security hires Marcinko and his Rogue Warrior team to simulate an incident in the heartland similar to what he and his men and one woman accomplished with Red Cell when his squad showed the vulnerability of nuclear subs and Air Force I. Marcinko and his crew "hijack" a train in Kansas carrying cyanide as their first stunt. As region Homeland Security chief Colonel Telly goes berserk over the incident, Marcinko notices explosives on a bridge not put there by his unit. They also find a headless, handless corpse in the nearby water.

Next stop is Iowa where Marcinko's team pulls off another terrorist act against Brozilla Cordelia and her unit followed by besting Telly again in Iowa. However, as Marcinko and the Rogue warriors head east, a pattern forms that makes them wonder if a real terrorist operative or cell follows their path with an agenda to take out the antiterrorist group and blow up some landmarks in the American heartland.

This is an exhilarating faster than a speeding train thriller as Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice showcase what is wrong with Homeland Security. Especially intriguing is Telly, a bureaucrat more interested in saving face than lives as he constantly berates Marcinko and the Rogue Warriors for embarrassing him, not caring that he can correct problems. VENGEANCE is a top rate tale that readers will deeply enjoy. Fans of Tom Clancy will fond this novel hard to resist.

Harriet Klausner