Towards the end of this book I went back and looked at my review of Without Remorse. I found the vigilante-ism in that highly unrealistic in that any legal issues were quickly swept under the rug. This time around the vigilante mind set 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, this novel simply had a much more exciting plot. I was on the fence of ...

This book is butt.Clancy initially got into 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 aspects of the Cold War world. After setting Jack Ryan up as President and probably due to his fame, Clancy's editors all but disappeared just as the novels got longer and longer, less accessible, and begin to read as neo-con diatribes praising the military-industrial complex. Where the series was o...

Rainbow Six marks a refreshing return to the military action formula for Clancy after he made some unfortunate tangential departures in his John Ryan canon, straying into revenge fantasies (the myopically unremarkable Without Remorse) and conservative/libertarian political fantasies (the all-but-unreadable Debt of Honor and Executive Orders). Rainbow is most similar to Clancy's Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears in both pacing and content. 400 pages of story crammed into 900 editi...

ABANDONADO al 82% (casi 800 pags según mi Kindle)¿Y por qué abandona uno tras esa burrada de horas sin saber el final? Conste que el planteamiento de la historia está bien. Un poco manido, pero bien.La cosa va de un grupo de elite anti-antiterrorista compuesto fundamentalmente por americanos, ingleses y un francés, un alemán y un israelí (por eso de que sea “internacional”). Y “malos” que organizan atentados terroristas y un grupo ecologista, Earth First, que quieren cargarse a todo quisqui para...

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 this 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 then solve the issue, Clancy uses his characters to murder everyone involved. This one has put m...

I chose Tom Clancy's Rainbow six because of my favoring of books militaristic in nature. Rainbow six was no let down; The story features John Clark, an ex-Navy SEAL, leading a multinational group of counter terrorist experts from different countries. The group encounters multiple terror attacks, dealing with each one with precision and professionalism. Later, they learn that one Russian agent was responsible for these attacks. The Russian agent Popov soon defects after learning about his client'...

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 ...

Rainbow Six has one of the most amazing plots I've ever seen in a book. Tom Clancy bends the seemly irrelevant beginning all the way around to ultimate climax of the story. My mind was truely blown when I got to the end of this absolutely stunning book. Now, Rainbow Six isn't a page turner all the way through, but there are some very suspensful chapters.If you keep with it for about a hundred pages, you won't be able to put down. Clancy is an amazing writer, and with all his military access, he ...

This is a terribly lazy book. It is 900 pages and should be about 200. And while there are long descriptions of gun cleaning and men's showers, the thing that got me most was the repetition. Every time Clancy comes back to a character, he gives us the same details about him. "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." (x4!) This tremendous repetit...

Tommy Clancy is an impressive story-teller 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 into...