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For many readers, Jack Ryan embodies the essence of the modern American hero. Morally centred, disciplined, humble yet powerful, Ryan (and his onscreen incarnations in Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) has made Tom Clancy one of the most popular writers in the world. But while Clancy has constructed the Ryan mythology, he has also quietly established his shadow double, John Clark. Appearing in The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger and Without Remorse, Clark has many of Jack Ryan's most appealing traits, but he is also a darker figure embodying the more paranoid sensibilities of the late nineties. As is made clear from the opening pages of Rainbow Six, ex-Navy SEAL Clark and his colleagues believe violent, deadly force to be the best deterrent for terrorism.
Clark (a.k.a. Rainbow Six) has left the CIA to create an England-based organisation code-named "Rainbow". Its mission: deploy an elite squad of American operatives combined with handpicked British, French and German agents to stop terrorism in its tracks. Rainbow's emergence could not be more timely: in quick succession, the force diffuses three attempted terrorist actions. But Clark becomes suspicious when Russian agents suddenly show interest in Rainbow's work.
Rainbow Six appeals on all the levels that Clancy fans could hope for. The Rainbow operatives, from Navy SEALs to German mountain-leader school graduates, are rendered to inspire with their physical and mental prowess. The book is infatuated with the latest gadgets for scrambling, transmitting and decoding secrets. And, in a carefully woven narrative that simultaneously traces the Rainbow team, a former KGB agent named Popov, the Australian Olympic security team and a sinister group of American scientists, Clancy artfully reveals the mystery of "Shiva" at the centre of the novel. How does Clark measure up against Jack Ryan? He may be the perfect hero for a world with hidden villains. --Patrick O'Kelley
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Featuring John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL known from several of Clancy's novels, this is Tom Clancy's new and most extraordinary novel. John Clark is the man who conducts the secret missions President Ryan can have no part of. Whether hunting warlords in Japan or Columbian druglords, Clark is efficient and deadly but even he has ghosts in his past, demons that must be exorcised. And none worse than the peril he must face in RAINBOW SIX: a group of terrorists the world has never encountered before, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life as we know it. It is Tom Clancy's most shocking story ever - closer to reality than any government would care to admit.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
While Tom Clancy may be best known for his Jack Ryan series of novels, he has shown that he can easily translate his skills over to a more action-orientated novel. For some, a Jack Ryan novel may be a little heavy in detail sometimes but the action is always brilliantly written. With Rainbow Six, we are given further insight into the characters of John Clark and Domingo Chavez, who will be familiar to readers of Clancy as being Jack Ryan's 'action men' in the CIA. With this new anti-terroist team 'Rainbow' we have an international team of men all the best within their field. British, Germans and Americans altogether. While there is the main plot-line running in the background (now even more frightening given recent events), 'Rainbow' are assigned other missions - and with these the pace and description is sheer genius. The incident at the Spanish theme park is fantastic - totally against the norm, yet shows the human nature of the characters we are presented with. While I am a great fan of the Jack Ryan series, I would dearly love to read another Rainbow Six novel. Are you listenning Mr. Clancy?!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm well aware that that probably isn't even a real word, but it sums up the book so well. The set-piece action scenes are hugely exciting, leaving you on the edge of your seat in the wait to see if they will succeed. In the "calmer" interludes, Clancy keeps the story chugging along, just quick enough to keep you interested yet not so quick that you lose track of who is doing what.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Typical Tom Clancy - a brick of a book, but suspense from A to Z
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Just couldn't get into it... a great big literary misfire !!!
Ok, I've made two attempts to get into this book now. Both times I couldn't get past more than a few chapters. Read more
Published 5 months ago by MattMars
Involving, But LONG.
This book is good to read, has interesting characters, a decent plot, but it's so DAMN LONG. I haven't read this for about a month because frankly it moves at a snails pace. Read more
Published 8 months ago by The Bossman
Not sure about this one
First impressions are that this is a huge book with a naff cover. But you never judge a book by its cover do you? Read more
Published 10 months ago by Rock Ape
'andsome
Order this beast, came through my letterbox, bish bash bosh i was sat in the sun reading it. Great seller, didn't bugger around at all and delivered it straight away.
Published 12 months ago by DannoW
One of my favourites
To read that some people have marked this book as one or two stars, purely on the basis of three things: the inability to land a transport plane at Hereford (fairly minor, and... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Alison
Excellent
This was the first Tom Clancy book I have read. It sat on a shelf for about 2 years before I finally ran out of other things to read. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Bookworm
Highly Enjoyable
I like to read my books in order written, and this is the first "new" Clancy book that I have read in a long time, after having re-read his others a number of times. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2010 by Glosblue
Interesting story line - poor on details
While I am not through this book yet, I am disappointed, while it is fiction, a lot of books in the genre are well researched and plausible, which makes reading them a much more... Read more
Published on 2 May 2010 by Vivid Reader
Abridged and Tom Clancy don't work
I have read a number of Tom Clancy novels and enjoy his in depth writing style. This unfortunately does not transfer very well to having the novel abridged for the Audiobook. Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2010 by Phippo
Not bad
Not a bad book.
But how Clancy seems to think us Brits speak is ridiculous, we DO NOT call each other "chap" and "old man" all the time.
But how Clancy seems to think us Brits speak is ridiculous, we DO NOT call each other "chap" and "old man" all the time.
Published on 12 Nov 2009 by Zin
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