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HTML:In this #1 New York Times bestselling John Clark thriller, author Tom Clancy takes readers into the shadowy world of anti-terrorism and gets closer to reality than any government would care to admit... Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark has been named the head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, Clark is confronted with a violent chain of seemingly separate international incidents. But there is no way to predict the real threat: a group of terrorists like none the world has ever encountered, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it. No library descriptions found. |
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Re-reading it as an adult my appreciation dropped considerably. Frankly, Clancy's personal politics are *weird* and it seeps into the book in ways that make it harder to enjoy. There's a scene of bizarre, prurient sexual voyeurism by the villains using a magic 'inhibition reducer' out of Beavis & Butthead logic. You can feel his horror at the very concept of lesbianism hitting the same way the baffling ending of Lovecraft's "Medusa's Coil" hits. There's a long aside during one of the hostage situations handled by the Rainbow team where he basically starts soapboxing Heinlein-style about the irish republican army. The use of ecoterrorists as a well-funded, sinister global threat with genocidal ambitions is something out of AM talk radio's wildest delusions. The glee with which the deaths of 'bad guys' is described and celebrated, without any self-introspection, gets sickening after a while.
Spawned a great video game, at least. ( )