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Summary: The book is an excellent complement to the game!
Review: After having the game and playing it for a few months, the book Rainbow Six came out and I grabbed it right away. The book adds a new dimension to the game and it was nice to be able to read a story instead of play the game all the time. Playing the game actually makes the book a whole lot better because you are put into scenarios that are very much like the ones in the book.
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Summary: One of Clancy's best.
Review: Timely in view of the threat of terrorism today. The scene with the little girl in the wheel chair is heartbreaking. Clancy makes us aware of those who put their lives on the line to circumvent thugs like these terrorists.
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Summary: a disappointed Clancy fan.
Review: I like Tom Clancy Novels. I like the detailed military and operational information. I think he comes up with intriguingly possible plots. Rainbow Six, unfortunately, has neither of these traits. The major plot is that this eco-maniacal corporation plans to purge the world of the human race using an ebola variant. WIthout going into too much detail their delivery mechanism is totally unrealistic. As if the USAMRID and the CDC could not recognize an engineered virus, and wouldn't be a bit suspicious if a biotech company just happened to have a mass quantity of the vaccine needed to combat it? Well the virus never gets loose thanks to our hero, the domesticated new Daddy Ding Chavez who Clancy has developed into a totally uninteresting vanilla since Clear and Present Danger, shows up and arrests the viral delivery man in an anti-climatic showdown. It would have been much more interesting novel if the virus had gotten loose. The whole novel build towards the release of the super virus and then ... Ding arrests the delivery man. How exciting.The military tech in this book is light weight compared to Clancy's other books. I came away from Red October knowing alot about nuclear subs. The coolest gadget in this book is encrypted multi -channel radios for spec ops. WooHoo! Anyway it was a miracle i finished this book. I kept thinking "Its gotta get good sometime". It didn't.
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Summary: Not the real deal
Review: For all those reviewers who say this book gives a good idea what it's like to be a special operations soldier-- wrong! I spent twenty years in spec-ops and these charicatures are a disgrace to the men I served with. Clancy is an ex-insurance salesman who has no clue either a) what it's like to serve and b) what combat is like. Having said that, I accept this is fiction and needs to be looked at in that like. As far as that goes, how about bad guys who aren't stupid and good guys who believe in the American way-- such as posse comitatus, trial by jury, etc.? If I wanted to go live in a police state there are plenty of countries I could move to. You want real? Try Andy McNabb's SAS books, or James Webb's Fields of Fire, or Stephen Coonts for air combat or Bob Mayer's special forces books. All those others walked the walk.
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Summary: I love the game, it made me read the book and it's excellent
Review: I started off playing the Rainbow Six game online which really gave me an interest for anti-terrorism and such. I decided to get the book and I am not much of a reader which probably explains why I gave it 5 stars. I usually grow tired of books after a few chapters and leave them in a box some where, but with Rainbow Six, this was NOT the case!! At exciting times I could not stop reading and a blazing 80 pages a day is alot for me (concidering I usually never finish books with even 250 pages). If you like action, detail, suspence, mind exercise, counter terrorism - this is a great book to read! I highly recommend it, along with the game and the sequel: Rogue Spear! (and it is not far fetched at all as someone above mentioned, it is highly realistic with todays society)
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Summary: Worst piece of writing to hit the streets in years
Review: The book gives a whole new meaning to "padding" senseless episodes meant to set the stage don't. The denoument matches those episodes.In the future Clancy would be well advised to dip his word processor in Kaopectate before he starts!
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Summary: Ridiculously Long...
Review: Exciting story, packed with slanders to Discovery Channel buffs. I only found this one offensive: he used twice as much "tree" as he needed to with this adventure. Clancy takes much, much too long to develop his plot. Read this book only if you have an unhealthy amount of spare time.
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Summary: Realistic combat scenes, with intriguing characters!
Review: Clancy accurately depicts military life and potenital real-life scenarios. Rainbow Six returns Ding Chavez and John Clark to Clancy novels. Chavez and Clark are two agents, Navy and Army respectively, who should never be messes with. Descriptions were gory, but that is how it is. The soldiers kill without compunction and die without complaint. Clancy should continue to include Chavez, Clark, and Ryan in his novels. A good find for any military lover, a little nerve wrecking considering I began reading it on an airplane and the first scene involves a hijack.
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Summary: Good, except for the ending.
Review: Rainbow Six is a well written book full of plot twists and exciting action sequences, although it lacks the ending that the beginning of the book promises. For those of you who didn't know, the book is about an anti-terrorist organization constructed by the UN to act in all countries against terrorist threats. As it unfolds, you find out about a group that is out to purify the world from the so-called parasitic human race that destroys her by means of biological warfare. For those of you who hate reading long, detailed books, you definitely would not get into this 800+ page monster. But for the ones out there, though, like myself, who enjoy a detailed book, this is for you. Throughout the book, the Rainbow team (the anti-terrorist group) completes many different, difficult missions that, while taking up a good portion of the book, will be fasinating to those interested in miltary strategy. Some of these will seem familiar for those of you who have played the game. Some of the creative twists in the story include an assault on the home base of the Rainbow group, specifically targeting the wives and children of the group. Other twists in the plot include the sudden change of heart from an ex-KGB agent who, after finding out the nature of the terrorist attacks he organized, hands himself over to Rainbow, the men whose wives the ex-KGB had targeted and attempted to kill. Rainbow Six is almost perfect until the end of the book. For some reason, the ending just doesn't give off all the thrill and suspense that was built up by the previous 700 pages. It is just too predictable. All that happens in the ending is what you would expect to happen. A good ending should be unexpected and unpredictable. By no means is the ending terrible, however, but somehow I expected more as an avid reader of Clancy. If an ending is that important to you, I still recommend this book highly to any Tom Clancy fan, even if you just put down the book at the end and make up your own ending.
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Summary: Rainbow 6 is a must read for all fans of the genre
Review: Tom Clancy did a magnifiscant job on Rainbow 6. I've read some of his books before, and I found they tended to drag on a bit in the middle. Rainbow 6 was far from boring. It had a masterfully done plot and very good description of combat and what it's like to be a soldier in a special ops force. I am not a soldier, but after reading this book, I think that I have a pretty good understanding of what it would be like. This book was a melting pot of several genre's. It had elements of spy, action, and, dare I say, evan some sci-fi. All in all, this book is excellent and a must have.
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