Rainbow Six

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Summary: Not his best, but a good read
Review: Just finished reading the book last night -- actually the wee hours of this morning. Not as good as some of Clancey's others such as Clear and Present Danger and Debt of Honor, but it held my interest. With the exception of the book's climax, which I found riveting, the action "scenes" were not as suspenseful as in previous novels. John Clark deals with the antagonists in his usual unique and creative manner at the book's end. Overall, Clancey fans will not be disappointed.

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Summary: Disappointment...
Review: Tom Clancy wrote a new book!! CLANCY! CLANCY!! CLANCY!!! Hey, wait a second. This isn't by Clancy! It's terrible! The plot is a rehash of his last two novels. The characters, which used to be interesting and "real" are flat and boring. Oh, I'm sorry. There's lots of shooting and explosives. Oh, right, that's what makes a book good. Tom, I'm sorry, but your old stuff was far, far, far superior to Rainbow Six. We know you can write. You just decided to pretend that can't. Right?

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Summary: Slow paced
Review: Tighter standards apply to Tom Clancy than to run-of-the mill authors. By Tom Clancy standards, RAINBOW SIX is disappointing. The entire first half of the novel is based on two untenable premises, 1) that a sudden increase in terrorist activities would influence which of many competing companies an Olympics security contract would be awarded to, and 2) that an organization would spend 100 million dollars or so, sponsoring such random terror, when simply undercutting competitor's bids would be more effective. Clancy's writing has achieved a high quality of excellence. Characters are evenly and appropriately developed for an action novel. However, for a Clancy novel, there isn't much action. At times the novel is painfully slow paced. The unnecessary repetition of philosophical an technical points-frequently verbatim, or nearly so-gives the impression of sloppy editing.

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Summary: This is the worst Tom Clancy novel, to date.
Review: I am a big fan of Tom Clancy and all of his previous works. Having said that, I also think "Rainbow Six" is one of the worst books ever published. This book is living proof that Clancy's reputation and marketability has outpaced his capacity to write. The book is MUCH to long. The story line would have made a nice short story at best. Dear Tom: You ripped me off! I want my money back. Also, I should receive compensation for dragging this thing across the country on airplane flights. It appears you are starting to believe your own BULL@#$?. You owe us big time.

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Summary: buy at borders.com
Review: Borders has the same book cheape

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Summary: this book has many good things about it and some bad things
Review: for all you guys talking about how the rainbow team seems super human well are any of you, navy seals,detla force or secret agents if not then how do you know what people in that life are like.

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Summary: Tom Clancy almost does it again.
Review: Rainbow 6 started well enough. The action and pace is typically Clancy, but after that, the book goes downhill. Characters are shallow, and we never feel for John Clark and Ding as we felt for Jack Ryan. The plot is not as believable as Clancy's Ryan novels and the bad guys even less so. As a Clancy fan, I felt a little cheated. From anyone else, this might have been a decent enough book, from Clancy, this is a let down indeed. I keep flipping the pages thinking it will get better, I was wrong.

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Summary: A very disappointing sequel to "Executive Orders"
Review: First of all I am a big fan of Mr. Clancy but his latest novel Rainbow Six was absolutely disappointing. It seemed like someone elso wrote this book or maybe Mr. Clancy finally burnt out (after all he is writing too much anyway!!). These are the main reasons why I was so disappointed: 1. The set-up of a NATO anti-terrorist unit - why were about 80% of the members US soldiers (so far I haven't heard of any successful military anti-terror operation by US forces). By the way there are 16 nations in NATO (soon to be 19). Why was there an Israeli operator - didn't know the Israelis are part of NATO yet? The French are only political members! 2. Why on earth would souvereign states like Austria, Swiss and Spain call in a NATO force and not use their own highly specialised anti-terror forces. 3. I've never heard of any SpecForce that went after the heads of terrorists rather than the body itself. Even with the emerge of body-armour there is no need for head-shots 4. The abuse of my native language (German). I've read many books in the English original but I never discovered anything like Rainbow Six 5. And finally there was no life in the characters of the story unlike in the Rest of Mr. Clancy's highly rocommendable work. This - my opinion - is of course open to discussion.

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Summary: A brilliant novel which I could not put down
Review: I would have given it 5 stars had it not been so long with so many spaces between the action sequences. I agree with other reviewers that it could have been written in 400-500 words instead of 700.

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Summary: Best Book I ever read!!!!
Review: Tom Clancy has done a wonderful job with this book. I couldn't put the book down. At the end of the book you want it to keep going. A Masterpiece!!!