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Summary: A novel so good it made for a good video game
Review: Fans of the character of John Clark will enjoy this novel, although we see an older, wiser Clark now...not the cool, efficient field agent we've come to know.Clark is chosen to lead a secret, multi-national anti-terrorism task force. Well manned, well funded, well equipped, and able to act when other countries cannot, Rainbow is the world's greatest hope in the ongoing war against terrorism. But Rainbow's skill and resolve will be tested by an unparalleled amount of terrorist activity. Some of it is personal, and nearly all of it is related. But the biggest threat is yet to come, one so horrible that failure is not an option. This story, while very engrossing, does not have the typical, multi-layered plots we see in other Clancy books. It's a more lighter read, but has enough cool gadgets, genre jargon, and intense plot to remind you it's a Clancy novel.
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Summary: reasonable, until the end...
Review: a reasonably written book, it certainly had me turning the pages. unfortunately, it closed off quite poorly.
*slight spoiler*
i just can't believe the ending - the "bad guys" (actually, i have far more sympathy for them than for the rainbow crew) just gave up. just like that. ten years, billions of dollars, and they just threw it all in the incinerator. no plan "b". no recovery attempt. nothing.
no - that is quite unrealistic...
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Summary: Tree-Huggers Beware!
Review: If you're a member of Green Peace or any other radical environmentalist group, this is not the novel for you (unless killing off the entire planet with an enhanced form of Ebola suits your fancy, that is). Tom Clancy proves he is a master of whipping up a complex, plausible, and contemporary plot in this 897 page monster of a thriller. John Clark and Ding Chavez are the main characters (sorry, but there's no one named Ryan here) and they set up a multi-national anti-terrorist task force code named "Rainbow". As soon as the organization is set in place, business is booming as terrorists start popping out of the woodwork at an alarming rate. It is readily apparent that these acts are related and the race is on to see if the bad guys will succeed in their bid to unleash a biological nightmare on the entire world. The writing is crisp, and everything you could ask for in a Clancy novel is spread liberally throughout. I only have a few beefs with this book and the first one would have to be length. Clancy could have cut at least 400 pages out and the book would still hold up under scrutiny. Parts were repetitive in the extreme and I for one thought I was going to explode if I had to read through yet another diatribe on the thought processes of Dr. John Killgore! We get the point, Tom! My other main complaint is that there is little chance for suspense when the main characters of the book are all mini-Rambo's. Even Clancy admits in the last "battle" that the foes were no match for Rainbow and it was akin to shooting fish in a barrel. Where's the fun in that? And they only took two casualties in the entire book? Come on! Anyway, those are my main beefs, but I still thought that it was a great page-turner. All faults aside, it's still a lot of fun, and if you're a Clancy fan it's a must.
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Summary: rainbow runs a six minute mile
Review: Though not a Clancy fan, it's definitely one of his best for action. I found howeverm the action sequences a bit repetitive. An Internationally sanctioned hit squad that is transported to terrorist situations where hostages lives are in the balance. This International S.W.A.T. Team, made up of the best of U.S., U.K. German, and a few other countries, goes in, and kills the perpetrators of these crimes. Not a bad idea, so far as I'm concerned.
Only two things making this international hit squad a total fantasy; with the "Liberal" politicians feeling sorry for the criminals these days, it would take days, if not weeks for them to agree to kill off their criminally bent friends, unless, of course, one of their own family members was being held hostage.
The second is; most major cities around the world already have militarily trained Swat teams to deal with this sort of problem.
Still, all in all, I'd have to say one of his more interesting, and exciting books to read.
My favorite Clancy Novel to this day, is still "Red Storm Rising" which he wrote with Larry Bond, whom I consider a far better writer of war, and anti-terrorist novels than Clancy is.
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Summary: Horrible-My last Clancy book.
Review: When I was a teenager, I burned through all of his early books in a few days, completely absorbed in the exciting military battles and intriguing political maneuvering. But it's clear that starting with this book, Clancy has run out of boogiemen. I'm an environmentalist, and although his topic of environmental terrorism didn't insult me, the bumbling, utopian narrative spewed by the disturbed tree-huggers did make me cringe. I remember turning each page, hoping, begging, to find something interesting to grab onto, but in the end it was a giant letdown. He started to lose it somewhere around Debt of Honor, but this is sure proof that he simply ran out of enemies. How much more Robby Jackson talking jive can you take? Or Ding spewing his East L.A. street-slang? The characters and plots are now cliches. Oh well-it was good while it lasted.
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Summary: A great Clancy novel
Review: This is one of Clancy's best works since 'The Hunt For Red October'. This novel starts out with a hijackers trying to hijack a plane! Now how great of a beginning is that?
The story is about a black organization called you guessed it 'Rainbow'. It is set in London and it goes like this.
John Clark is the leader of 'Rainbow', it would be best to read Tom Clancy's earlier novels to understand who John Clark is, and with him is his partner in crime Domingo Chavez and their wives Sandy Clark and Patsy Chavez. They are on their way to London to set up shop, but just when you suspect it, HIJACKERS are on the plane, and they of course try to hijack the plane.
So with John and Ding come in, they then stop the hijacking and save the day. While they are on their way to London, extreme enviromentalist are working on a disease that is able to wipe out human existence forever! The diesease is called Shiva, their goal is to wipe out the human race to help save the enviroment from utter destruction. They test the virus on homeless people, and so far, things are going according to plan. John, Ding, and their wives make it to London safely, and just when they were setting up, they are on their first call. Two bank robbers holding hostages in Sweden. So Ding and his crew head to Sweden to see the scene, and of course they kill the bad guys, and they get the hostages. With one hostage killed, but the robbers did it to flex their muscle. Now the whole world see's this, and they are wondering 'who are these men in black doing all these jobs?'
Of course it is a secret, and Rainbow does not really exists. The creation of Rainbow came from Jack Ryan, who is president, AND HATES IT!, to fight terrorism throughout the world.
As the story moves on, a former KGB agent named Popvo see's Rainbow for the first time, and begins to wonder who is this group?
Back at home, one of the cabinet members in the Ryan Administration HATES JACK RYAN because she does not agree with his enviromental plan. She of course is part of the plan with the extreme enviromentalists, and the same thing with a high commander in the Army.
So as the attacks keep coming ranging from hostages being held in their own house by terrorist, and the event at the amusement park in Spain, John then thinks that there their must be a link between these events.
Now terrorist are now forming to take over a hospital where Sandy and Patsy work at, Patsy is pregnant with their first child, and Ding is a person who is strong and represents a good role model for the Latino community. So they find out what is going on, they go in there and they get the terrorist who were hell bent on killing everyone inside.
Now we head back to the doctors (or killers), one of their victims are in their trap, and now she is trying to get contact to the outside world, so she sneaks out of her room, she is intoxicated with Morphine, she then finds a computer with internet access, and e-mails her father about what is going on and she does not know where she is.
The father is looking for her daughter, but when he gets the e-mail, he has hope now, but they cannot find where the e-mail was sent from. But something else is wrong too, the General from the Army is now going to plant the virus in the cooling system in the Olympics in the land down under. A employee see's something fishy and calls the cops. The General then dumps the plan, and they find the virus. Now Popvo comes back into the picture, and he meets up with some people who are working on the virus, he then finds out the truth on what is going on, he then makes a run for it, he then tells the government about what is going on, and now Rainbow comes into the picture. They then went to their headquarters in the American Plains, but it is deserted.
It turns out that they are in South America, now as Ding and his crew come back to America, they get brief, and they are headed to Brazil in the Amazon rain forest. They get the killers, and they save the day. This is by far one of his best novels, and I just wish that Mr.Clancy would write more novels like this instead of bringing garbage out like The Bear And The Dragon, Red Rabbit, and The Teeth Of The Tiger.
Great novel, and definitely a must read for any Tom Clancy fan out there.
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Summary: Plenty of Action
Review: This selection by Tom Clancy was an excellent read. Like most of Clancy's books it started off a little slow for me but in the end was a book I would recommend to anyone interested in this type of literature. Even if you have never read anything by Clancy this is one that would be good to start off with, it is full of action and adventure, just be sure you have enough time to sit down and read it within a rather short period of time. If you read only a chapter or two every two weeks or so like a friend of mine did then you will not get the true effect of the book because you forget so much information and have to go back and re-read the previous chapter just to remember where you were.
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Summary: Rainbow Six
Review: When I first started reading this book I felt kind of query because the first scene starts out in an airplane while the narrator (main character) Jack is nervous. As predicted and led up to there are terrorists on the plane that attempt to hijack it. (9-11??) Kind of ironic but Clancy is known for writing scenes and the in some way, shape, or form they come true. This book so far is very good and I can't put it down. Once you get hooked on Clancy books you will always be a fan. The best part is the detail Clancy puts in evaluating each agent (CIA, SEALS) it is as if the book wasn't fiction. I rate this book high and recommend it to anyone who enjoys military related books.
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Summary: Rainbow Six a great book
Review: Rainbow Six is a great book in my opinion. I liked it because Tom Clancy makes parts with lots of action, which is what I like. This book opens in Hereford, England where John Clark has setup a black-op organization called Rainbow Six which is an anti-terrorist organization that reacts against terrorist attacks. John Clark makes two different teams in this organization which are lead by Peter Covington and Domingo Chavez. Chavez and Clark are the most talked about characters and in this book their wives are involved. Most of the characters in the Rainbow Six group are from Tom Clancy's other books. Tom Clancy explains the terrorist attacks very well and how the characters would feel if this event really happened. Most of the events are very surprising and exciting. The ending is very surprising.
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Summary: If you liked the game you'll LOVE the book
Review: This book gives a real life sense of modern warfare and the world's continuing struggle with terrorism. It shows how family and war can affect a person. It deals with the growing horror of bio-war and what an extremist can really do with it. It lets us all know how much special forces people sacrifice to keep us safe and the invisible heroes who can never tell their stories.
John Clark starts the black counterterror group known as Rainbow. Made of the world's best special forces people, Rainbow is able to deploy anywhere at any time to take out the worst of the worst terrorists. But now an extremist group, who believes in their idea so strongly that they're willing to go to mad ends to complete it, are on the scene using the new horrifying weapon of bio-war. Is there enough time and enough information for rainbow to stop these lunatics?
If you've read the other Clancy books then you'll recognize the mysterious John Clark and the head strong Domingo Chavez. They're both great characters and Clancy continues their originality throughout the book. He also brings some new characters to the scene all with the ingenuous design that Clancy offers.
I most definitely recommend this book. It is heart pumping, realistic action from start to finish. With an interesting plot to keep you reading. It has enough action to keep you interested and enough side story to let you know the detail.
I recommend this book to people who already love Clancy's other work. It is also a good book for action lovers. I personally think everyone should read it. Tom Clancy is a talented writer and he shows it in this book. If you played the game you should read the book to know about the whole thing because the book is totally different.
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