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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: Tom clancy brought out all the twists in this one. I've never read a better book! I just wish he would make another Rainbow six. I think know that Tom Clancy knowshow to really write well there will be another great thriller.
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Summary: Rainbow Six
Review: Summary:
Rainbow Six is about an anti-terrorist military group (Rainbow) lead by John Clark. The Rainbow team is called to resolve various terrorist situations throughout the book. It is revealed to the team that a group of very dedicated environmentalists are behind the attacks and are trying to destroy the whole world population with a strengthened version of the ebola virus. The Rainbow team then has to find a way to stop the destruction of the world's population and a way to punnish the environmentalists for their actions. Evaluation:
This was the first Tom Clancy novel I read and I was not dissapointed. The book is action-packed and does not leave the reader bored. The last 200 pages of my paperback were a little slow, but the ending was worth the reading. It did seem that Clancy was trying to wrap things up a bit in the end, but the ending was good and the rest of the book was so excellent that the hurriedness of the ending can definitely be overlooked. The characters were very good in this novel. The description of the anti-terrorist teams gave an inside look into the thoughts of anti-terrorists and made you really root for the good guys. The book is also good for people who want a break from Jack Ryan (I like John Clark much better). The Russian character Popov was excellent. I can't say much about him without giving the story away, but I really enjoyed his involvement in the novel. All in all this is one of the best books that I have ever read. It has me hooked on Tom Clancy. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys action and is interrested in anti-terrorism.
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Summary: Good book, not great, but good
Review: Rainbow Six is about a secret multinational task force set up to combat terrorism around the world. The team's code name is Rainbow (which describes their multinational composition) and their leader is an ex-Navy Seal by the name of John Clark, also known as Rainbow Six.
The book starts by seizing your attention with an exciting plane hijacking, and coincidentally, some of the team members were on board to handle the situation with great professionalism. Just as the team is settling into its new base in London, they get called up to stop a bank robbery in Switzerland. An attempted kidnapping is the next plan they have to foil. And to top things off for the team, they have to face a group of terrorists that have kidnapped a large group of children and are threatening to kill them one at a time unless their demands are met.
Their next assignment will be a challenge so great that most people wouldn't have even thought someone would do such a thing. They must take on a group of people so extreme in their ideologies that... well, you'll just have to read the book yourself to find out what happens. I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Nations Alliance To Rid The World of Terrorists
Review: Nations Alliance To Rid The World of Terrorists
Title of Book: Rainbow Six
Author: Tom Clancy
#of pages: 740 Date Started: January 28, 2002
Category: Fiction Date Finished: April 22, 2002 Annotation:
Rainbow Six is a book about a collection of special forces teams from many nations who form an alliance to work against the efforts of terrorists groups around the world. The book has four main events. There are there anti-terrorist missions before the biggest mission of all for Rainbow. The largest mission is to try and stop the spreading of a deadly plague chemical at the Sydney Olympics.
Author Bio:
Tom Clancy is a well-established man of a very high character. The man writes books about those topics that most interest himself but that are very important in partial to the protection of our nation. Tom Clancy goes into deep detail in his books because of his extensive research of all military and political issues at hand. Tom Clancy has clearance to be aboard most military vessels and areas to be able to research those areas of the individuals of the area and the happenings of any event. Tom Clancy makes it his mark to study so in depth of every detail to be able to create his works of art.
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Tom Clancy's books are books written that go into very descriptive detail. Tom Clancy has a very well groomed way of leading a reader into his chapters and keeping them there with every intricate detail. I felt that Rainbow Six was the best book that I have ever read. Special ops and military work are very intriguing to me and this book includes every aspect of special ops teams down to the firing of rounds from a gun, to the computer satellite systems used as surveillance techniques by the ops teams. Military has always been a passion of my family. I have been able to be brought up in a family with two officers of the U.S. military. One NAVY and one Army. One also being an officer of the law. I have learned a lot about war and the military system. This book made me appreciate my knowledge of the military even more. The book was a very good read and I enjoyed the book very much. I have read a few of Clancy's books and plan to read as many as possible. So far the best of the Clancy books I have read is Rainbow Six. I have also read The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, and The Sum Of All Fears. I felt the climatic events throughout the book were exactly what they needed to be to lead the reader through every chapter. Rainbow was such an attacking group that I expected them to stop at nothing to get the job done. I felt that the ending was a bit too forgiving. Throughout the whole book, even up to the ending, the whole idea was to kill and finish anyone in the path of Rainbow who was not rightfully in that path. The ending of letting nature take care of itself just seemed too forgiving. I know the idea behind the idea was supposed to be poetic justice, but for the attack the Horizon group was planning against the world a more horrifying death should have been what the Horizon group should have faced. As I said I felt the book was the best that I have ever read but I felt the ending could have been handled in a different fashion. Thanks go out to Tom Clancy for continuing to write his perfect, intriguing writings.
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Summary: Nations Alliance To Rid The World of Terrorists
Review: Title of Book: Rainbow Six
Author: Tom Clancy
#of pages: 740 Date Started: January 28, 2002
Category: Fiction Date Finished: April 22, 2002 Annotation:
Rainbow Six is a book about a collecrtion of special forces teams from many nations who form an alliance to work against the effots of terrorists groups around th world. The book has four main events. There are there anti-terrorist missions before the biggest mission of all for Rainbow. The largest mission is to try and stop the speading of a deadly plague chemical at the Sydney Olympics. Author Bio:
Tom Clancy is a well-established man of a very high character. The man writes books about those topics that most interest himself but that are very important in partial to the protection of our nation. Tom Clancy goes into deep detail in his books because of his extensive research of all military and political issues at hand. Tom Clancy has clearance to be aboard most military vessels and areas to be able to research those areas of the individuals of the area and the happenings of any event. Tom Clancy makes it his mark to study so in depth of every detail to be able to create his works of art. Evaluation:
Tom Clancy's books are books written that go into very descriptive detail. Tom Clancy has a very well groomed way of leading a reader into his chapters and keeping them there with every intricate detail. I felt that Rainbow Six was the best book that I have ever read. Special ops and military work are very intriguing to me and this book includes every aspect of special ops teams down to the firing of rounds from a gun, to the computer satellite systems used as surveillance techniques by the ops teams. Military has always been a passion of my family. I have been able to be brought up in a family with two officers of the U.S. military. One NAVY and one Army. One also being an officer of the law. I have learned a lot about war and the military system. This book made me appreciate my knowledge of the military even more. The book was a very good read and I enjoyed the book very much. I have read a few of Clancy's books and plan to read as many as possible. So far the best of the Clancy books I have read is Rainbow Six. I have also read The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, and The Sum Of All Fears. I felt the climatic events throughout the book were exactly what they needed to be to lead the reader through every chapter. Rainbow was such an attacking group that I expected them to stop at nothing to get the job done. I felt that the ending was a bit too forgiving. Throughout the whole book, even up to the ending, the whole idea was to kill and finish anyone in the path of Rainbow who was not rightfully in that path. The ending of letting nature take care of itself just seemed too forgiving. I know the idea behind the idea was supposed to be poetic justice, but for the attack the Horizon group was planning against the world a more horrifying death should have been what the Horizon group should have faced. As I said I felt the book was the best that I have ever read but I felt the ending could have been handled in a different fashion. Thanks go out to Tom Clancy for continuing to write his perfect, intriguing writings.
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Summary: Great Effort,Bad Book
Review: What was Clancy on when he wrote this?!I'm not even past the first 100 pages,and already I want to return it!I'm not in to the whole military thing,so half the time I don't even know what the ... he's talking about.I giving him another chance though.I have The Hunt for Red October and The Cardinal of the Kremlin.I'll review them and if they both don't get at least 4 Stars,I'm through with Clancy.
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Summary: Awsome
Review: One of the best books i, a 15 yr old , has ever read. I have to admit this book was a little slow but, nevertheless awsome. This book will carry you through 4 action-packed missions and slowly reveal a catostrophic plot. Overall, one of the best books I've ever read. And the game is also very fun.
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Summary: Long Rainbow
Review: This is the only Clancy book that I've actually read, so I can't compare it to any other ones. I also can't make any comparison to other works with John Clark, because I've only seen movies with Jack Ryan. Although, Clark and Chavez appeared in the movie (and book as I'm told) Clear and Present Danger, but their characters were butchered. Anyway, the story goes that Clark and his son-in-law Ding Chavez have been comissioned to start Rainbow, an international anti-terrorist group. They go around the world stopping terrorist acts, while a secret organization is planning to release a poisoned gas at the Sydney Olympics. The terrorist battle scenes are great, but the non-action scenes, while necessary, are a little boring at the beginning, but they begin to gain excitement towards the end. That's another problem though. The book is almost 900 pages! It takes a long time to get to the end! If you love Clancy's other books, you'll probably like this, but if you don't like books that force you to use your brain, you may want to steer clear of this one.
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Summary: Ghostwritten poorly
Review: I am a big fan of Tom Clancy's earlier work. But as Jon's review noted: much of this book must have been written by someone else, and written poorly. Tom Clancy is the acknowledged master of military detail. How could he refer to Clark's legendary Vietnam-era unit (SOG) by the wrong name ("Special Operations Group")? Any armchair special ops fan knows the correct name ("Studies and Observations Group"). Likewise, the book wrongly refers to the MH-6/AH-6 helicopter as "the Nightstalker." In fact, "Night Stalkers" is the nickname for the pilots and crew of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (motto: "Night Stalkers Don't Quit") portrayed so vividly in "Black Hawk Down." The MH-6/AH-6 chopper is known as the "Little Bird." I think Tom Clancy knows these details -- it's too bad he didn't read the book that was published under his name. The book also was never read by a copy editor. Bits of dialogue between the same characters are repeated verbatim just a few paragraphs apart. Popov states that Sean Grady is "quite ruthless," and Henricksen agrees. On the next page, Henricksen asks Popov if Grady "has a reputation for ruthlessness." Short term memory loss? These simple, silly errors recurred too often to list. Either Clancy's editors are too cowed to correct simple errors in his work, or he really is paid by the word (and refuses to cut obvious repetition in order to pad his word count). Even if the reader is able to suspend disbelief and swallow the major premise, there are obvious holes in the bad guys' plot. How did a fanatical tree-hugger become the CEO of a major corporation (or a Presidential advisor) without ever revealing at least some of his/her wacko beliefs? Doesn't ring true. How did the Project bring in at least 50 conspirators, without a single leak or compromise of security? Efforts to maintain secrecy could have been an interesting part of the tale, but the issue is never mentioned. Finally, after the Project was kept in secrecy for years, why was Popov sent to wander around the facilities unsupervised? Makes no sense. It should be clear to Clancy fans that this book was commissioned as a set-up for the computer game of the same name. I've heard the game is pretty good. It's too bad the book is such a shoddy piece of work. I'm going to try out the game myself -- all the shooting might help me work out some frustration from wasting my time reading Rainbow Six.
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Summary: All Around Good Effort
Review: This book is another competent effort by Clancy. I was excited that he was going back into the Jack Clark story line. For me, this is one of his better characters becuase he is such a man's man. This book probably could have done with some of the uncut pages left out, it does go on and drags a few places. It must be the power he has gotten over this editors that each of his books that is driving them to be increasingly longer. With that said I am a big fan of Clancy and I thought the book moves along and is never dull. Let me add that you always get a lot of detail and fact with a Clancy book, this is one of he reasons I really like the books and the reason some of my friends are getting turned off. The extra pages on the detail and weapons bring extra value to me. Becuase of the believability of his role in the story, with the back ground we know about him, I completely trust the character. This believability of the role and character are the main reason I can give this story some slack. I was hard pressed to believe the story line at first, but through out the book you come to believe in it. If you like Clancy you will love this book and probably do not need these reviews to prompt you to buy one. If you are just curious then give it a try or grab one of his earlier books.
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