Towards the end of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, I went back and looked at my review of Without Remorse. I found the vigilante-ism in that book highly unrealistic because any legal issues were quickly swept under the rug. This time around, the vigilante mindset is back, but it's a large group effort with government backing. I guess I can believe that a bit more (if you can believe governments do questionable things in secret). I think realism aside, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six simply had a much more ex...

This book is utter garbage.Clancy initially made his mark on the techno-thriller genre with *The Hunt for Red October*, *Patriot Games*, *Clear and Present Danger*... books that largely focused on the espionage and tactical elements of the Cold War. After setting Jack Ryan up as President, and likely due to his fame, Clancy's editors seemed to vanish. The novels grew longer and longer, less accessible, and started to read like neo-conservative rants praising the military-industrial complex. What...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a welcome return to form for Clancy's military thrillers, especially after some questionable detours in his John Ryan series. He'd wandered off into revenge fantasies (the forgettable Without Remorse) and right-leaning political wish fulfillment (the nearly unreadable Debt of Honor and Executive Orders). Rainbow Six is most like Clancy's Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears in its pacing and subject matter. You've got about 400 pages of actual plot stretc...

I quit at 82% (almost 800 pages according to my Kindle).Why abandon a book after investing that many hours without knowing the ending? Let it be known that the premise of the story is good. A bit cliché, but good.It's about an elite anti-terrorist group composed mainly of Americans, Brits, a Frenchman, a German, and an Israeli (hence the "international" part). And "bad guys" who organize terrorist attacks, and an environmental group, Earth First, who want to wipe everyone out to leave the Earth ...

Extrajudicial murder for fun and profit. I've been a longtime fan of Tom Clancy, even though he never met an adjective or adverb that he didn't like. Each of his books is exactly 1/3 too long. In some respects, *Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six* is the best-written book of the Clancy canon. On the other hand, the resolution of this story turned my stomach. The resolution of the plot left a tricky legal problem to deal with. Rather than solve the issue, Clancy uses his characters to murder everyone invol...

I picked up *Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six* because I'm a sucker for military thrillers, and let me tell you, it didn't disappoint. The story follows John Clark, an ex-Navy SEAL, as he leads a diverse, multinational team of counter-terrorism specialists from all over the globe. This squad faces down a series of escalating terror attacks, handling each situation with impressive precision and a cool head. As the plot thickens, they discover a rogue Russian agent is pulling the strings. This agent, Popo...

What a trip! Tom Clancy, arguably (along with Larry Bond) the biggest game-changer in the history of the technothriller, proves that he can deliver comedy gold with this droll self-parody. Ex-Navy SEAL and super-duper CIA legend John Clark, still hurting under his warrior's iron-hard facade from the brutal and plot-driving death of every woman he has ever known in his entire life, is put in charge of a top-secret NATO counter-terrorist team. Clark, his demeanor increasingly reminiscent of Uncle ...

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six boasts one of the most incredible plots I've ever encountered in a book. Tom Clancy masterfully weaves what seems like an irrelevant beginning into the ultimate, mind-blowing climax. Seriously, my mind was completely blown by the time I reached the end of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Now, it's not a non-stop page-turner from start to finish, but it definitely has some intensely suspenseful chapters. Stick with it for the first hundred pages or so, and I guarantee you won't ...

This is a terribly lazy book. At 900 pages, it feels like it should have been trimmed down to about 200. And while Clancy dedicates pages to describing gun cleaning and men's showers, what bothered me most was the sheer repetition. Every time he revisits a character, he repeats the same details. "Tim Noonan had come to Rainbow from the FBI. He was a tech guy but he wanted to get in the field and he spent a lot of time at the range. He was as good with a handgun as any of the other men." (repeate...

Tom Clancy is an impressive storyteller, and I really like his work... BUT he’s also a major word glutton and very promiscuous with regards to the sheer volume of prose he pours into each tale. The man loves, loves, looooooooves him some letters, and it seems he will do nothing in 5 pages of text if he can possibly coax 10 or 15 out of it. A bit more brevity if you please, sir. That said, Clancy is a grandmaster of the big, global threatening, spy-guy thriller, and he packs plenty of worthy cont...