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Summary: More Clancy, same style and plot? But a good read.
Review: I have a library of Clancy books. I delight at each new one. The book is a worthy read for his fans, but it is time he changed his pattern. Like Ludlum, Grisham, and Sanders, Clancy needs to change his portagonists and his research. If not, his loyal readers won't keep reading his books. I never thought I'd say this, but it's true. I enjoyed the book, but it was a hard read. Not fun. The best book I read this summer is your new posting of Brad Steiger's new book, Alien Rapture, where secret government technology, murder, torture, and plot intrigue rule supreme. Reminded me of Red Storm Rising and Search For Red October by Clancy in his finest form. I recommend this book to every Clancy fan.
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Summary: What happened to TC????
Review: After Executive Orders I told myself that I would give him one more chance. He had his chance with R6 and blew it. Boring characters, bad dialog, implausible plot, questionable political (and moral) ideologies.... R6 has it all! Hopefully he'll reread Hunt for Red October and re-realize what it takes to make a good book!
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Summary: Real disappointment
Review: This book is a let-down. I have followed Jack Ryan's life through many of Clancy's books and this latest pales in comparison. It left many questions such as: 1) Why was it necessary for the villians to research into Clark - contributing to the exposure of the Russian agent? 2) Why was it necessary to keep the agent alive if the objective is near? 3) Why the need to use the method of delivery? Why was there only one delivery? Why wait until the end of the event? All said, the villians are made to be unrealistically stupid. And the ending is a real disappointment.
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Summary: Vintage Clancy Thriller Delivers the Goods!!
Review: Tom Clancy has written his best thriller to date, and it is a chilling book with a plausible plot that scares the hell out of any knowledgeable reader. As a practicing physician, I found that the viability of the terrorist consipiracy described in the book is too close for comfort. As our politically correct world moves closer and closer to having more respect for the rights of animals over those of humans, this book chronicles an excellent plot where environmental terrorists take aim at the human population. Dismissing humans as parasites on the planet, the terrorists seek to eleminate all but the elect which is composed of their little group of environmental wackos. They have the tools to accomplish the task, and only John Clark and his Rainbow Six unit save the world. What a wonderful read for people who demand plots that are plausible and frightening in their potential reality. This is the best Clancy book in recent memory.
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Summary: A GREAT Read!
Review: I just finished reading Rainbow Six by John Clancy. It is a GREAT read! I could barely put it down. It had action from the very first page to the epilogue.Clancy did a wonderful job of developing the characters and bringing characters from the past back in this novel. You got to see John Clark become a granfather and Ding Chaves become a father. I would highly recommend this book to everyone who likes the techno/political/thrillers.
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Summary: A big disappointment
Review: This is by far the worst of Tom Clancy's books. The story line is predictable, the characters are all one dimensional, and it is boring. Mr. Clancy had several opportunites to explore the contradictions in the "good guys" that kill for a living and the bad guys that want to kill everyone to restore earth to a "pristine" condition, but he never took them. His bad guys are just plain unbelievable. Even the most extreme environmentalist would believe that a small colony of 5000 people would survive without support from a much larger group. Where are they going to get their fuel? How about supplies for their research? Electricity? Spare Parts? The bad guys act like these things will magically appear. Totally unbelievable. One of the main tasks of an author is cause us to suspend our disbelief in favor of the story. Mr. Clancy failed miserably. If you are not a die hard Clancy fan, avoid this stink-a-roo at all costs.
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Summary: Wish I Had Read The Warnings
Review: Only after reading Rainbow Six did I look up the reviews. I must agree with what seems to be the majority opinion...Clancy's worst to date. I was annoyed by the repeated phrases, the unnatural inclusion of technical information, and what seemed like a lot of filler.
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Summary: bad research, no plot, good writting
Review: A Clancy as some of his readers want him. I am personally absolutly dissapointed. The writting is as usually good. But first the plot is thin. He could have shortend the book to 100 pages. The worst is the research. For example two out of three german words were misspelled. In school you would get an F- for that kind of spelling. Second Mr. Clancy interpretation of terrorists is laughable. Please Mr. Clancy do us all a favour, try harder next time. I might buy you again. A fan
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Summary: Totally engaging from the begining to end.
Review: Through Tom Clancy's various books, he has used present day environments to set the stage for his characters to do what they do best. In "Rainbow Six", Clancy takes the reader into the world where spies are for hire, America is blind to bio warfare and old CIA agents are looking for new tricks. Clancy once again resumes the tale of John Clark who was made popular in the film "Clear and Present Danger". As a CIA Agent looking at the new world and seeing all the changes that have happened since his first exploits in the Vietnam war, Clark creates an ultra black project known as Rainbow Six. Based in England a with a free hand to combat terrorism on a global scale, Clancy pens a very exciting drama that is tough to put down. Ofcourse this wouldn't be a good Clancy book without plently of storylines linked together. There is a greedy former KGB agent stirring up terrorists around the world, a drug company CEO who cares more for the environment than his fellow man and a close Presidental advisor who is instrumental in exposing Rainbow Six. Remarkably Clancy brings it all together in the final pages and leaves us wanting more.
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Summary: A lot of words for not a lot of enjoyment
Review: Like many other reviewers, I loved Clancy's first novels. To date, the only novel of his I genuinely disliked was Debt of Honor, his other novel focusing on John Clark. Instead of focusing on his strengths, Clancy instead tried a character study - and transferred so much of his thinly-veiled right-wing paranoia onto Clark that it was a thoroughly unpleasant read. But with Executive Orders, I was again on Clancy's side. Though I found the black-and-white world (Jack Ryan & friends: good; Everyone else in government not appointed by Jack Ryan: bad) somewhat difficult to swallow, the drama was wonderful, and more than anything else, Clancy could make you feel like you were there. And the climax was fantastic. I was very, very disappointed with Rainbow Six. The numerous editorial failures (typos, grammatical errors, dangling plot threads) were as distracting as I've ever read in a mass-market book. The lack of any attempt on Clancy's part to tell the story without preaching makes me wonder *why* Clancy's telling the story in the first place. Does he want to tell us a story? Or does he simply want us to recognize that believing in the conservative cause is the One True Way? It's probably somewhere between the latter and a multi-million dollar advance. Overall, the battle scenes with the terrorists are richly told. But Clancy's endless repetition of what good men Chavez and Clark are (do we really need to hear *one more time* how much they like Ding's new baby?) made me tire of both, and I really liked these characters in both Patriot Games and Executive Orders. All in all, this book is an example of lazy writing. No attempt was made to clean it up: and we're left with reading the same character descriptions over and over... just in case the last 15 times didn't make it abundantly clear. Others may disagree. But when the book ended, I was sorry I'd spent that much time wading through a sub-par novel.
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