Rainbow Six (1998)

by Tom Clancy

Series: Jack Ryan Pub Order (9), Jack Ryan Chron Order (10)

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I liked this book very much. Despite (as far as I know) this is still fiction, it is a realistic plot, something that could happen someday. I like that kind of books, even more when they also challange me to think about the book, where it is heading, what is going to be next. (

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BoekenTrol71 | Apr 21, 2013 |

This book follows on from Executive Orders and although Ryan is still President he is only an off-stage presence. The book is about the setting up of an elite multinational anti-terrorist plot and how it comes up against a somewhat unlikely conspiracy to wipe out nearly all the human race. As usual with Clancy, there are multiple plot strands interwoven with great skill, and a steady build up of tension throughout the book. I would place this amongst the better half of his books, and it also lacks most of the stereotyping and bad language which sometimes spoils his work (

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ponsonby | Aug 10, 2011 |

JACK RYAN

rustyoldboat | May 28, 2011 |

I tried and failed to read The Hunt for Red October as a kid--it was too long-winded. But Rainbow Six was an easy read. (

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mcandre | Jul 6, 2010 |

Featuring John Clark, the ex-Navy Seal known from several of Clancy's novels, as the dark side of Jack Ryan, 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 druglords in Colombia, Clark is efficient and deadly but even he has ghosts in his past. And nowhere more than the peril he must face in Rainbow Six: a group of terrorists the world has never encountered before. This is Tom Clancy's most shocking story ever - closer to reality than any government would care to admit. (

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There are no compacts between lions and men, and wolves and lambs have no concord. -Homer

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For Alexandra Maria lux mea mundi

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John Clark had more time in airplanes than most licensed pilots, and he knew the statistics as well as any of them, but he still didn't like the idea of crossing the ocean on a twin-engine airliner.

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For many readers, Jack Ryan embodies the essence of the modern American hero. Morally centered, 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 as Clancy has constructed the Ryan mythology, he has quietly established Ryan's 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 '90s. 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 organization 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 center 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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John Clark takes over as head of a new international anti-terrorist group code-named Rainbow. He immediately has to take on a variety of terrorists, including an ecoterrorist group with a cataclysmic agenda.

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