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Summary: The worst threat yet
Review: This book is developed around John Clark and his son-in-law Chavez. Clark is head of a SAS type international team to counter terrorist. Book as usual is well written. The ultimate threat, beyond normal reaason and grand in scale. But fully plausable. Though enjoyable and action packed, I miss Jack Ryan.
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Summary: All The Colours of the Rainbow
Review: I am a 11 year old boy. I read this book because I knew that Tom Clancy was good (read the Sum of All Fears), and that Rainbow Six was on a SWAT commando style topic.The book begins with an exciting plane hostage situation, where the stars of the book, and also the members of Rainbow Six, an international elite force designed to eliminate terrorists across the globe, are on board the plane as it happens. Then, Clancy describes the training in full detail, while still keeping it exciting. The first "official" mission of Rainbow Six is a terrorist threat in Switzerland. Clancy spends a while on this one, but again keeps it exciting. I won't give away the rest, because why read a review when you've already read it?
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Summary: Probably the best book you can buy!
Review: I am a 14 years old boy from Norway! I have never read any books before this. I tried to read a book on Norwegian, but the book was to boring. But in this book its exciting almost all the time. Its a hijacking starting already at the end on page 4, an that`s great! After the hijacking there`s 5 missions for Rainbow. I recommend this book to all who likes action! Buy this book if you want some excitement! Its worth the money!
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Summary: Its Clancy, but at his worst....
Review: I waited a long time for Clancy to releae his next novel after Executive Orders, and I'm afraid that Rainbow Six was a big let down. The plot of the book centers around John Kelly aka John Clark - who prior to this book is a complete badass in all of the other Clancy novels in which he appears. So, when I heard R6 would be centered around Clark, I thought it was fantastic. Unfortunately, the book did not live up to my high hopes. Clancy is an accurate writer, and because he sets this book even farther in the future than Executive Orders, he has to come to grips with the aging (or at least, no longer youthful) Clark - and so Clark himself, while certainly at the center of the plot, hardly deserves to be called a main character as his role, while central, is also minor in terms of the number of pages devoted to him and in terms of what he actually does in the story. Instead, the real main character is Ding Chavez, who is also a great Clancy character but doesn't hold the mystery and auora that Clark does. I also think the plotline that Clancy chose, that of Clark starting an elite anti-terrorist group, limitted the story outside the scope of what Clancy does best - set up, and then tell the tales of naval, air and land battles - not the sneaky covert stuff that permeates this book (in fairness, Kardinal of the Kremlin, which centers around exactly this, was a killer book). Finally, the antagonist in this book hatches a plan that is far too similar to the trials that confronted Jack Ryan in Executive Orders - that of an attempted biological attack. In fact, I think to a large degree this problem has haunted Clancy since the Sum of All Fears, where terrorists manage to nuke denver, to Debt of Honor, where the Japanese threaten the US with nuclear weapons, to Executive Orders, where Japan's cohorts in Debt of Honor show up with a new weapon of mass destruction, germ warfare, and now this book, where the exact same plot is repeated again. To sum up my feelings on this book, I would suggest checking out any of the aforementioned books by Clancy, or some of those that I did not mention, before spending money on this. If you're a die hard Clancy fan, you'll probably want to buy this book and you should, but for everyone else, its just not that good and probably not worth bothering with.
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Summary: Fun reading though maybe offensive to Greenpeace?
Review: CIA blackops John Clark creates and leads an international anti-terrorist team that has the capability to enter any country's borders. Despite its rather outrageous Hollywood-style plot (no spoilers), the charm here is how Clancy pulls this plot off and not be silly in a realistic frame of mind. The book doesn't suffer and bog down from the heavy technical details usually criticized against Clancy's previous books Sum of All Fears and Debt of Honor. It's actually relatively easier to read than Sum despite its near 900 page count. I can't help thinking that this book is somehow Clancy's way of giving the middle finger on groups like PETA and Greenpeace. It's not because he disagrees with the philosophy of caring for your planet and animals, it's the priority and hipocrisy these people sometimes display. This issue is seen through one of the major characters in the book, the ex-KGB spy Popov. I must say he is the most interesting character in the book and I can relate to him in many ways. The rescue operations conducted by Rainbow Six in this book are still possible scenarios. Someone in the past here criticized these scenarios as being so '70's era. I must disagree, just early this year, there've been at least 2 airline hijacking. It's also a continuing problem in my country. This book to me serves as a certain appeasement for revenge. This feeling is also evident in the good guys in this book. So, I would have to say this feeling certainly is not corny.
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Summary: Rainbow ROCKS!
Review: I am only 14 and this is actually the first Tom Clancy book that I ever read, but I loved it. It was action-packed and dramatic while still retaining the thrill of reality. I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: I Must Be Easy To Please...
Review: Based upon some of the more luke-warm reviews this book has been given here at Amazon.com, I figure I must be quite easy to please because I really enjoyed this read. While I agree with other reviewers that many of the characters were dimensionless, the storytelling and suspense in this work kept me interested enough to read through the 740 pages. Usually, if a book turns me in the wrong direction within the first 100 pages, I rarely finish it. "Rainbow Six" on the other hand did the exact oposite and kept me coming back. The "action scenes" are well written and the plot in general is quite good but most importantly, this book entertained me and that's why I feel it earned it's four star rating even though there were a few issues with this story. For instance, if you've never been to the UK, after reading this you'd probably think that everyone in the UK or Ireland drank Guiness and drove Jaguars. While Guiness is quite popular, not everyone drinks it, like Clancy portrayed. Another thing that bothered me: could that plumber guy that let Popov onto the base be that stupid. I mean, c'mon! I don't really think he would have allowed the Russian to tag along with him after hardly meeting him. These items and a few others kept it from beening a five-star read, but the work is still excellent and definitely worth the price of admission.
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Summary: Excellent writing, gripping plot!
Review: I have always liked Tom Clancy's writing style and choice of subject but this book takes the cake! Rainbow Six is one of the best novels I have read and I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the covert operations of the world's governments.
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Summary: "Shiva" is an intersting strain
Review: Tom Clancy has chosen a good topic for "Rainbow Six". The basic plot, Shiva a genetically engineered strain is interesting and the book is a page turner. Initially the conversation among the rainbow six team is too much which may loose the interest of the reader. Apart from this, one can read this book
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Summary: difficult words and too naggy
Review: The story itself brings readers a positive mind to continue reading. It provides good Vocab as well as good structures. However, some parts in the story is too long winded which make the reader gets bored easily, especially the part where killgore made the medical experiment on the girl. On the other hand, there are some events which are pretty intresting and thrilling. FOr example, the terroists' incidence which provides plenty of detaills. To summarise, this book is suitable for all ages and i definately want to recommand this to everyone.
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