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  • Hardcover: 738 pages
  • Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (August 3, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0399143904
  • ISBN-13: 978-0399143908
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 2.2 x 9.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,859 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsRainbow Six is a chilling, thrilling action novel....
By Alex Diaz-Granados on October 5, 2003
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy's 10th novel and ninth in the Jack Ryan/John Clark series, once more focuses on the ex-CIA paramilitary field officer known in the Agency as Mr. Clark. This time, the focus once again turns to the challenges of fighting global terrorists and the menace from extremists determined not only to reshape society, but the entire planet's environment.
Clark is close to retiring as a paramilitary officer in the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations when Agency executive directors Ed and Mary Pat Foley, with the tacit approval of the recently elected President John Patrick Ryan, ask him to run an elite team of antiterrorist Special Ops fighters from several NATO countries. Their mission: to act as an international 911 team in hostage and other terror-related situations deemed too high-risk for local law-enforcement agencies. Based in England, this so-called Rainbow Team will be deployed mainly in Europe, but with support from U.S. and other allied nations, can operate anywhere in the world. Clark, who was an enlisted member of a SEAL team in Vietnam, is given a rank equivalent to a full colonel and the call sign Rainbow Six. (In military parlance, the designator "six" after a unit's call sign is assigned to a commanding officer.)
Rainbow Six opens with a tense incident high above the Atlantic as a small group of Basque terrorists attempts to hijack the plane carrying Clark, his wife, his protege and new son-in-law Domingo "Ding" Chavez, and Alistair Stanley, his British second in command, to London. Using their wits and finely honed skills, the three Rainbow members overwhelm the hijackers and save the crew and their fellow passengers.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsTom Clancy being Tom Clancy
By Bufford D. Moore on April 28, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Minor spoilers below if you haven't read the book.

Tom Clancy's literary reverence for things military is overtly evident through his books from Hunt for Red October onwards. In Rainbow Six, he indulges in small unit tactics for a whole tome. In many ways typical Tom Clancy, the book is instructive at a layman level about anti-terrorist tactics as practiced by special forces units. I have little doubt that the usual level of research went into this book that Mr Clancy usually carries out. I admit to being an unabashed fan.

So why not five stars?

Well, to be honest, nothing ever goes wrong for these guys. The books continuously alludes to the virtual certainty of problems with operations, but then nothing really does. I kept waiting for the problem and the subsequent analysis, but it never happened. I realized that, among the other obvious things that I like about Clancy, the recognition of the failings that people have and the way these play out on a broad stage are much of what I enjoy about his books. This one doesn't really have that.

Good Clancy, but not the best Clancy
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5.0 out of 5 starsIntense "Bolt"-Action Thriller
By Ryan Pere on October 10, 2001
Format: Mass Market Paperback
In today's world, terrorism is rampant. The definition of terrorism is "the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological." This means that there are people out there trying to inhibit our freedoms by any means possible. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six revolves around the world of terrorism. It is the story of John Clark, master of the Covert and Black Operations world. Clark also stars in many other Clancy novels such as "The Bear and The Dragon."
The novel is about an international Counter-Terrorist team, named Rainbow due to its multi-national make up. Different members are recruited from the world's best Counter-Terrorist teams around the world such as Seal Team 6/DEVGRU (Naval Special Warfare Development Group), SAS (Special Air Service), HRT (Hostage Rescue Team), and GSG-9 (Grenshutzgruppe 9). The team's mission is to effectively resolve terrorist situations world-wide.
The setting is modern day. Although Clancy wrote this novel in the late 90's, the equipment that Rainbow uses is still currently used in real Counter-Terrorism teams today, except the Heart Beat Sensor, which is purely theoretical. However their equipment which includes H&K MP-10s, flash bangs, NVG (Night Vision), infrared, Primacord explosive, and tactical radios are all very real and all used today.
In the novel, Clancy uses a plain, straight-forward style of writing. He also is very descriptive. His descriptions include thoughts and feelings of both Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists. He offers an insight on our recent tragedy by letting us into the minds of the terrorists within his novel.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsI'm a tree-hugger, and I loved it. SPOILERS AHEAD!
By Jennifer Hansen on August 26, 2003
Format: Hardcover
I didn't realize for years that Mr. Clancy had written other books in the Ryan universe besides _The Hunt for Red October,_ and I kicked myself when I found out what I had been missing: lots of big fat good books with equal portions brain and heart. This one took some getting into, though, because I am a granola treehugging eagles-belong-downtown envirofeminist myself. (Belong downtown? In my little Alaskan town, they crap on the cars. Everybody in the U.S. should have the privilege of wiping bald eagle crap off of their own automobile.) But on rereading, I got a chill down my spine.
Any deeply held belief system can be coopted by the taint in the human soul and turned into a Cause, as in Anything For The. Clancy's genius shows in the way he created a believable charismatic human monster in the historic tradition, but gave him a Cause for the 21st century. It made me reexamine my dismissal of the wackaloons of the environmental movement. All they need is a demagogue.
The lesser monsters who cluster around John Brightling have their finely drawn individual freakishness as well. They remind me of Hitler's supporting cast, and I suspect that that was the author's model. You have the man who scarcely blinks at human death but flinches at the deaths of small animals; the self-indulgent brute who murders rather than restrain his appetite; the enthusiastic planners who are so in love with the big picture that they find it easy to ignore its horrible scaffolding; the dreamers who really believe that their personal obsessions justify the bloody overthrow of civilization. I entertained myself on a hot afternoon by imagining life in the Kansas facility in a plotline where the Project succeeded. Then I shuddered and went out into the sunlight.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

Great story, but the author gets too hung up on descriptions dealing with military jargon.

Published 21 hours ago by Denise S. Feezor
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat!

It did meet my expectations. Very suspenseful and loved finding out what happened next. The book is older but don't let effect your decision to read it.

Published 2 days ago by Corey Scogin
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great story, a little to much detail at times, lots of action, GREAT ending..

Published 4 days ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Always A good read

Published 12 days ago by PattyAnn
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

My son is reading it. He likes it because a video game was made from it.

Published 20 days ago by Eileen Vargo
5.0 out of 5 starsJust as great as the game.

If you love the Tom Clancy Video Games you'll love his novels just as much. Especially since continuity plays a big factor in the Tom Clancy Universe.

Published 26 days ago by Case Shankles
5.0 out of 5 starsNIce read!

Great as usual!

Published 1 month ago by ShesAmazoning
5.0 out of 5 starsOne great read!

Wish I could give it 10 stars! One in a series of great writing... Tom Clancy knows how to create suspense & intrigue

Published 1 month ago by Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsJust as good a story the 6th time I read it as the first!

Clark is a great character. I keep coming back to Rainbow 6 and Without Remorse every couple years - both among Clancy's best.

Published 1 month ago by TC of Elberon
5.0 out of 5 starsGood story and perfectly twisty

Tom Clancy techie. Good story and perfectly twisty. Great ending.

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