Dick Couch

Author and Speaker

The Finishing School

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In America’s new wars, the first guns in the fight are special operations forces. This includes the Navy SEALs—specially trained warriors who operate with precision, swiftness, and lethal force. In the constantly shifting war on terror, SEAL units, small in number, flexible, stealthy, and…Read More…

Down Range

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In America’s global battle against al-Qaeda and their allies, the goal of the Navy SEALs is to be the best guns in the fight—stealthy, effective, professional, and lethal. Here for the first time is a SEAL insider’s battle history of these Special Operations warriors…Read More…

A Tactical Ethic

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Following the success of my work on Navy SEAL combat actions in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, I set out to examine the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the continuous efforts for the hearts of the local population. As…Read More…

The Sheriff of Ramadi

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The Sheriff of Ramadi is the first book written about the courage and success of the Navy SEALs in Ramadi. The Battle of Ramadi was the most sustained and vicious engagement fought by Navy SEALs since their inception in 1962. Never before had a…Read More…

SEAL Team One

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This now-classic tale of SEAL combat action in Vietnam marked my debut as a novelist in 1990, and has now sold more than 120,000 copies. Hailed for its authenticity, it was the first novel about Navy SEALs to be written by one of their…Read More…

Pressure Point

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Delivering “a gripping insider’s view of the secret world of nuclear security (W.E.B. Griffin), Dick Couch’s explosive novel poses the chilling and timely question: How safe are America’s waterways from terrorist threat?” Riding quietly at her moorings at the highly-secure Trident Submarine Base on…Read More…

The Mercenary Option

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After losing his son in the September 11 attacks, wealthy industrialist Joseph Simpson forms and funds the Intervention Force or IFOR—a surgical strike team led by former Navy SEAL Garrett Walker. Officially, the group is a rogue operation with no government affiliation. But when…Read More…

Covert Action

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First there was The Mercenary Option. Now IFOR, the surgical strike team led by former Navy SEAL Garrett Walker, returns in an explosive adventure charged with authenticity, suspense, and covert action. Formed and funded by a wealthy industrialist after the terror attacks on American…Read More…

Act of Valor

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The Navy SEALs have been fighting terrorists around the world for more than a decade. And for all that time, the Bandito Platoon from SEAL Team Seven has been on continuous combat rotation. Now they have drawn a shipboard assignment off Central America—an easy…Read More…