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Summary: Best Ever reality fictional book
Review: This book is one of the best ever created. Starts out fast and doesn't stop till the very last page. It takes you to the minds of both terriost and the counter ops. It has made me become very intrested in all of clancy's work and if you really like this book i would recommend Tom Clancys and Gen Carl Stiner Shadow Warriors which was just published and is about going inside special forces. Tom Clancy imagination is amazing and you will fall in love with all of his material whether you like the armed forces or not.
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Summary: AWESOME!!! Book
Review: This is the 2nd Tom Clancy book I read and well...I LOVE IT!!!
It started off full of action....and though it died down it got started right back up.
The action of how they take out the terrorist network is awesome, and how he makes it all come togethere is great.
Highly recommended book...makes me want to read more.
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Summary: Clancy's Best Ever
Review: At its heart is ex-Navy Seal John Clark. He is the newly named commander of Rainbow, a international taskforce created to battle terrorism. In a trial by fire, Clark is confronted with a chain of seemling separate incidents. But there is no way to predict the true threat: a group of terrorists like no one has ever seen before. A band of men and women so extreme it could truly mean the end of life on earth.This book is action packed. It is full of munitions experts, sharpshooters, and all-around daredevils. Clancy carefully researched this book to make it truly realistic. This is Clancy at his best. His description of special-forces operations is as real as anyone will ever see.
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Summary: I love Clancy's books...
Review: ... but for the love of God, stay away from this one. You can do so much better than this, a book that reads as if one of his "Op-Center" co-authors wrote it. In the beginning, there was "The Hunt for Red October", a taut, intense action read. 300-some pages of absolutely gripping story, the sort you don't put down unless it's 5 in the morning and you've gotta work tomorrow. Then, other ones (great, good, all-right... but at least readable). But apparently the end of the Soviet Union as an antagonist has left Tom bereft of evildoers more realistic than Oddjob or Dr. Evil. So now we have 1,000-plus pages of the most ridiculous terrorist scenarios conceivable (see also "Executive Orders"-- just as bad), ones that seem all the more absurd when juxtaposed with the horror of September 11. I won't give away the plot, but suffice it to say that if you're into Clancy, or want to be, start at the beginning (with "Red October", in my opinion his best), and read his work in chronological order. When you get to "Debt of Honor", read it (if only for the 'at-the-time-it-seemed-so-implausible' ending) then go back to the ones you liked before. Do. Not. Read. Any. Farther. You will only be disappointed.
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Summary: Simply his worst
Review: Does he ever have his books proofread before they are printed? I've never seen so many spelling mistakes in a book before.
To make matters worse, the plot of this book is absolutely ridiculous. Mr. Clancy obviously doesn't have any clue about environmental issues.
On top of that Rainbow Six is repetitive and just plain boring.
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Summary: Somewhere between Marcinko and The Sum of All Fears
Review: I would have prefered to see a larger portion of the book describing more missions for Rainbow rather than pages of tripping through the amoral mind of eco-nuts. If there are two weaknesses in Clancy's writing style they are (1) long, monotonous sections describing technology in painful, excruciating detail, and (2) long, monotonous sections describing personal thoughts in painful, excruciating detail. If you're looking for anti-terrorism Marcinko style, stick with Dick. If you're looking for Marcinko meets The Sum of All Fears, this is your book.
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Summary: A gripping read
Review: This book was ther first Tom Clancy book that I read and it was even better than I had expected by word of mouth. The characters were realistic and also very human, the plot was huge yet simple and the action was fast-paced and shocking. If you are looking for a good book to read then pick this one.
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Summary: Not quite there
Review: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six gives the very inside details of what it's like to be behind-the-scenes FBI agent. If you have completely no interest in crime scene srategies I highly recommend you choose a different book.
Rainbow Six takes a little while to get into, but once you hit the teams first climax point, you will be stuck to the plot. The relationships between the teams members also carry the plot to a true American genre.
I can't quite agree with one of the quotes on the side covers as "thrilling", but I can say there are points were you coerce yourself into reading passages again in disbelief.
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Summary: Quick Page Turner... All 740!
Review: I've read many Clancy novels over the years, and there have been some that had been very difficult to get through but not this one. I bought this book after the 9/11 incident, so I felt a little strange reading it (deja vu?), especially since the first scene starts out aboard an airliner which, unfortunately for the bad guys, John Clark was on board. In this book, John Clark's wife and daughter are involved in the story and their characters are somewhat developed - calm, successful career women who also took care of the family. Being a female reader (I don't know how many of his readers are, but none of my female friends read his books), that's a plus, just keep it a little more interesting. John's character is very likeable and endearing, especially right now in our (at least my) need for strong heros. I also celebrated because they were, in general, successful with their fight against the terrorists - a good overcoming evil incident every couple of hundred pages - which kept me going. I was anticipating something bigger to happen when the bad guy was going to use the chemical agent in the fogging system, but I remember thinking, "That was it? It was too easy!" Also, the ending was sort of abrupt. I wasn't sure EXACTLY what happened to the bad guys in the end, so I feel like I'm left in suspense.
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Summary: Brilliant- only if you can find the time
Review: After reading this book i am a commited clancy fan. Rainbow six was the first of clancy's books I read and I now know that it is a large step away from his other books and in particular, his series. The book still clings closely to the Tried and True Clancy Formula, with character profiles taking up a good third of the book. However, once I finished reading the full 900 pages.... which i agree, to some may seem extravagent and unforfilling, to me it represented a brilliantly crafted diplay of writing and storytelling excellence and it has succeeded in making me a fan of the legendary writer, Tom Clancy.
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