The Marine (WWE) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rudy Josephs
Publisher: World Wrestling Entertainment
Category: Book
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 1416521879
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781416521877
ASIN: 1416521879
Publication Date: July 25, 2006
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Following a rescue mission in Afghanistan, discharged marine John Triton returns home to South Carolina and into the loving arms of his wife, Kate. Though happy to be home, Triton soon discovers that adjusting to a 'normal life' doesn't come easy for him. In fact, suppressing his intense training and strong survival instincts may be the greatest challenge he has ever faced.That is, until a camping trip to the mountains results in an unfortunate encounter with five ruthless killers on the run, and Kate becomes their unwilling hostage. Left for dead, Triton relentlessly pursues his quarry deep into backwoods country, determined to get his wife back safely at any and all costs. But he's wounded, unarmed, and outnumbered. All he has left are his wits and an almost-animalistic rage that made him an unstoppable killing machine in the frontlines overseas. The marine is waging a new war, and his enemies have no idea how much trouble they're in...
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 book was purchased as a gift for grandchild who loved the book thank you January 17, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
unable to give a review of the item since I did not read the book, it was a gift to a grandchild
 mindless fun October 23, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like the movie itself,this novelization of "The Marine" is good escapist fun for guys.Sure,the plot is ridiculous,but then it's supposed to be.The whole point of both the book and the movie is the action sequences,and
they are top-notch onscreen and in print.And yeah,the "bad guys" are nothing more than comic buffoons,but they are intended to be that way.
But I really liked John and Kate.Surprisingly,for the leading characters in an action story,they had some depth to them.John Cena and Kelly Carlson
are GREAT in the movie!So all in all,this is a good action story that moves swiftly and works up a good deal of suspense.I recommend it for
most guys,and especially young adults.
 Interesting premise, but lacks believability. August 15, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Rudy Josephs novelization of the movie proves what happens when an author assumes there has been authentication checks when the movie was made. I knew I was in trouble by page 22, after the hero John Triton had vanquished 9 (count 'em) 9 armed terrorists single handedly to save 3 Special Ops Marines. (There is no such unit at present, although the 'Corps is building one.) After his discharge for disobeying an order (for which there was no trial), he returns home to his loving wife. It was like watching a train wreck, you don't want to look, but you just have to, so I pressed on.
The story continues with John and Kate camping, but running into bad guys who snatch his wife as a hostage.
As our hero chases the baddies who have kidnapped his wife, even the most casual firearms reader is left scratching his/her head. He has a revolver, but the hero hears the click, click "on an empty clip" (huh?). During the car chase John's car has the top ripped off (ala Smokey and the Bandit), suffers a front-end explosion when baddy bullets hit an engine oil line (huh?) and when the baddy car is disabled, John's trashed car, spinning left to right, flies over the top of it (ala Dukes of Hazard). No problem, in about the 1/8 second this is happening, the baddies climb out of their car and machine gun John's spinning vehicle.
Whew. Ok, John deals with all that, but now he is on foot armed only with a knife. He is put upon by 2 armed dope manufacturers and overpowers them both (of course), and casually wanders off to continue the hunt, not bothering to take one or both of the vanquished doper's weapons. John is truly amazing.
The hunt goes on with our hero getting blown out of various buildings but survives them all as he pursues the kidnappers, but I think I'll just leave Superman on steroids here; you get the general drift.
One could walk out of the movie (which carries the same name) and just say "Hey, it's just a Hollywood movie", but I would respectfully submit that the written word should have a higher standard. I would be remiss in criticizing an author without suggesting corrective action, and here it is: I blame the author and publishing house for not having the book proof read by a military person (not necessarily an expert, a Marine or even a veteran) and someone with at least a high school knowledge of physics and some common sense.
Although I respect Josephs's effort, I cannot recommend bothering to read this book.
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