Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy

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• ISBN13: 9780425170342
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Book Review: A great Clancy novel
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

Summary of Rainbow Six

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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