I first picked up Red Cell when I was likely much too young to read it. But my parents didn't know the book's content and figured it was just another Tom Clancy-style series.Wrong. As the book was the first to teach me, never assume.I went on to read the rest of the Red Cell "fiction" series and the previous non-fiction Rogue Warrior, along with some of Marcinko's other non-fiction works. I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on what his writing style was like back when he wrote both solo and with Wiseman. Marcinko's voice is almost too eloquent in its use of profanity, and his style is very unique. After reading Rainbow Six, this book was a very fresh change of pace. The voice that Marcinko constantly keeps present throughout the book, which is told from a kind of first-person that mixes straight narration to the reader, a kind of past-tense telling of events, and a present-tense almost stream-of-consciousness style; all these different voices come out at different times in the story that, I believe, call for these changes, and as such it helps break up the pacing and the flow of the book from being just one big long spy thriller story. Instead, what you're left with isn't just some story about Navy SEALs and their antics; you get a mix of the autobiographical viewpoint, and Marcinko does not hold back his opinions (in the story nor in his narrations).There are other great things about this book; the plot is indeed riveting. If you do some creative Wikipedia searching after reading the book to see just how "fiction-y" it really is, you can actually find some really interesting things--so when the narrator straight-out tells you he's writing "fiction" with a healthy coat of irony or sarcasm, you really get the sense that he may actually be telling you about something that really happened--and that makes the plot all the more riveting.It's also a short read, due to the fact that you likely won't want to put it down very often. Like I said above, the book does a great job at using voice and other devices to break up the action, but there are some parts that you just won't wanna stop on. And, to me, that's the real sign of a good story, the way it can just drive you to its finale. After re-reading this recently I came to really appreciate the work the authors put into making this book work the way it does. I went to film school and have always been interested in storytelling as a craft, and as I've gone back and learned more about stories and then came back to this book, I was really surprised at just how well the book does what it does. It's not fancy, but, as the author reminds us, it is often the simplest plan that is most effective. KISS.