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Summary: Great first into Clancy's world
Review: This was my first book from Tom Clancy. I had played the video games and decided to see what all the fuss was about. I have to say that I was very pleased by the read. It moved along at a very quick pace following John Clark and Domingo Chavez.
Character development was great, not too indepth, but not so vague that you were left cold. The action was great, and the suspense leaves you sitting on the edge of your eat.
It shows how one slip up can break cases wide open in the FBI, new technology in the military, and how corupt human kind can be.My only perks about this book are few:
team RAINBOW comes of as beeing too good. The first three missions they encounter go by too well without any problems. All the men on both teams seem to supermen that can't be hurt, which takes away the humanity factor of them. The ending is somewhat questionable as far as moral/legal issues arive, especially after the book pushes for legality and justice in many of its cases.
It would alos have been nice if a little more incite had been given to Team 1 other than that, a great read!
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Summary: Rainbox Six
Review: "Rainbow Six" is a new organization started under President Jack Ryan's term in office. He has assigned his CIA buddy John Clark to head it. It is an team of international militery experts (the title refers to all the flags that are involved in the team) who specialize in counterterror operations. Clark takes his usual partner and son-in-law Ding Chavez as his XO. Their first mission is to investigate a series a seemingly random terrorist actions in Europe. <SPOILERS AHEAD> The plot about the superflu viris comes out of Stephen King's "The Stand"; it also bears resembalence to Clancy's last novel, "Executive Order". But that is the only major misstep as far as I can really tell. Other than that it is a fast paced thriller (at over 800 pages, that was a pleasent suprise). The charactors are all John Wayne cut outs, but that's alright too. This one and the book "The Sum of All Fears" are my favorite Clancy novels. This one is a lot of fun to read.
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Summary: Judge it for yourself...
Review: Rainbox Six is a damn good novel. Sure Clancy messed up on some things; (like when he called latin women latino. No, they are called Latina's, men are called Latino), and definitely when Clancy refer's to the English as "chap's" no, they call each other "mates". The book starts out great: a high-jacking of a plane. The book stars John Clark: Ex-Navy SEAL and former CIA agent. He leaves the CIA to head to England and start a secret anti-terrorist organization called RAINBOW. Along side is his partner in crime Domingo Chavez (who from previous novels have done some things most men like myself dream about), so now as they get down the terrorist, they then set up shop, and they are headed to their first mission; a bank robbery gone bad in Switzerland. RAINBOW is made up of the best of the best; they come from Germany, France, England, and the U.S. So then the team gets there, they kill the terrorist and they go home and train some more.
Now in America, a team of scientist are working on a virus which they want to wipe out human existence for good so that mother earth can repair herself from human destruction. Now comes in former KGB agent Popov. He see's what RAINBOW can do, and is very interesting on how they plan and move with stealth precision and able to get the job done. Eventually they are called to more jobs; terrorist take over a theme park killing a disabled child, and terrorist invade the house of a important diplomact in Romania. Eventually the tree-huggers kill enough people to see if the virus works; it does. So now, in order for it to do it dirty work, they send it to Australia which they have the maintenance guys installing a cooling system there so that the virus can spread and they can pass it. So now, they find out who did this, and while before this is happening, terrorist take out a London hospital where Sandy (John's wife) and Patsey Chavez (Ding's wife) are doctors there, and Patsey is pregnant with Ding's child. So now, Ding use's his street mentality on one of the terrorist and he cracks. So now, as Popov finds out what the scientist are doing since he knows one of the men in charge, he then escapes and tells the U.S. government what is going on, and it goes back to RAINBOW. They then find out where they went: the Amazon jungle. So now RAINBOW heads there, and takes them out. the novel is good, but some people might not like it because it has a lot of action, and some people might find the ending boring, but so what? It is good, so to all the haters out there, dont hate on Clancy, only hate him for writing Red Rabbit and The Teeth Of The Tiger.
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Summary: A great read from start to finish
Review: Having never read a tom clancy novel before, I originally began by playing the great series of rainbow six PC-CD ROM games and thoroughly enjoyed them. This is what motivated me to buy and read this book and I must say it is great, The story rips along at a good pace not dwelling on too much political junk which can be boring. It's main focus is Clancy's mysterious ex CIA/Navy seal character of John Clark/Rainbow six, originally named John Kelly. The plot explains so much that is is the games as well as being a great action novel but with a plotline which is a nice change. It pulls in an ex KGB agent gone mercenary, a team of bio weapons scientists doing nasty experiments on people as well as a good use or technology currently in use with the military. The team clark ocmmands is named rainbow and is a multi-national anti terrorist force combining the best people from different countries around the world including british american, german and french etc. Having seen all the tom clancy films and reading this book I was then prompted to read his many others and I must say I can never wait for the next novel to come out and especially look forward to the suggested rainbow six movie.
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Summary: Not worth reading
Review: My expectations weren't high, but this book failed to meet them anyway. I was looking for enjoyable, light reading. Instead, this book turned out to be a long boring story about lifeless, flawless commandos killing off the "bad guys". The plot is rediculous. The narration is repetitive. The ending is morally questionable - justice is sacrificed in the name of expediency.
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Summary: Filled with hot air
Review: This is no doubt Tom Clancy's worst book. I can't believe he didn't do his homework like in all his other books. And since when do Britons call each other "chaps?" My dad has been to England and said they always address each other as "mates." I don't know about the plot either. It just sounds a bit silly. How can tree-huggers be so smart and yet so sloppy? The Russian ex-KGB man Popov seemed pretty slick and smart. He was the only convincing character in the book. Ding doesn't strike me as a military man. He seems totally in control on the battlefield and yet, acts like a gangster when interrogating an IRA suspect with a knife. Most of the characters seem so unreal, and since when do terror suspects crack in less than a second under interrogation? And the book is just not reality. In today's world, we can't get even France to stop arguing and look at the big picture. So how can there be a multinational coalition of SWAT people from countries like the US, France and Germany working together? Never going to happen, even if the world is coming to an end. And the ending was so silly and such a letdown. I've read books that ran at 400 pages several times. This is the first 400-page book I've read and felt bitterly disappointed with. Do not even think about reading it. Ironic that there is a huge coalition of military supermen against tree huggers and this book turns out to be a mere waste of paper and money. Try Patriot Games or The Hunt for Red October instead.
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Summary: Major plot flaw
Review: Mundane book with two dimensional characters marred by a major plot flaw. When it's summertime here, it's winter in Australia. Why would they need a multimillion dollar cooling system?
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Summary: Good but not the best
Review: This novel was pretty good, the tactics and charcters were right on with Clancy. I liked seeing Clark again, and the events as told were pretty close to real world events. But their were times where it got to be a bit downer. All in All a pretty good book.
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Summary: Rainbow Six
Review: Rainbow Six is one of the best books I have read in a long time. This was my first book by Clancy, and I have already bought more of his books. Clancy captures the current situations in the book and explains, sometimes in gruesome detail, how it was handled by the new CT team made up of American, British, Israeli, and German troops. Rainbow Six is a must read.
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Summary: Clancy delivers another great book.
Review: If you want to talk about a page turner, this is it. I would lock my self in my room so I could get through a whole scene. Clancy goes into so much detail about what is going on at that moment. Not so much as to bore you. This is a great book to start out with if you are just starting to read Tom Clancy's books.
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