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Rainbow Six
Author: Tom Clancy

Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy's 10th novel and ninth in the Jack Ryan/John Clark series, focuses on the ex-CIA paramilitary field officer known in the Agency as Mr. Clark. The focus turns to the challenges of fighting global terrorists and the menace from extremists determined not only to reshape society, but the entire planet's environment. — Clark i... more »s close to retiring as a paramilitary officer in the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations when Agency executive directors Ed and Mary Pat Foley, with the tacit approval of the recently elected President John Patrick Ryan, ask him to run an elite team of antiterrorist Special Ops fighters from several NATO countries. Their mission: to act as an international 911 team in hostage and other terror-related situations deemed too high-risk for local law-enforcement agencies. Based in England, this so-called Rainbow Team will be deployed mainly in Europe, but with support from U.S. and other allied nations, can operate anywhere in the world. Clark, who was an enlisted member of a SEAL team in Vietnam, is given a rank equivalent to a full colonel and the call sign Rainbow Six. (In military parlance, the designator "six" after a unit's call sign is assigned to a commanding officer.)

Rainbow Six opens with a tense incident high above the Atlantic as a small group of Basque terrorists attempts to hijack the plane carrying Clark, his wife, his protege and new son-in-law Domingo "Ding" Chavez, and Alistair Stanley, his British second in command, to London. Using their wits and finely honed skills, the three Rainbow members overwhelm the hijackers and save the crew and their fellow passengers.

With this introduction to the job, Clark then turns his attention to training the various members of the several Rainbow teams, not knowing that the airliner incident was simply one of many terrorist incidents being bankrolled by a mysterious and wealthy individual with a darker, more terrifying agenda. With the assistance of a former KGB officer and inspired by one of the most horrible aspects of the Iranian plot against the U.S. (as chronicled in Executive Orders), a group of environmental extremists is plotting to reverse centuries of man-made damage to the Earth's biosphere by committing the most horrible act of mass murder in history.

Clancy's novel paints a troubling picture of what happens when a noble idea (such as promoting global conservation) is twisted and perverted by charismatic and cold-blooded individuals.

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ISBN: 201561
Publication Date: 1998
Edition: Abridged
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Audio CD
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Aimee S. (Ariadnae) reviewed Rainbow Six on 11/8/2006 + 356 more book reviews

Great thriller!

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Colleen S. reviewed Rainbow Six on 2/25/2007 + 3 more book reviews

An ex-Navy SEAL is head of a task force dedicated to combating terrorism. Several international incidents uncover a group of terrorists whose goal is to destroy life as we know it. A very fast moving, well-written mystery--definitely not one you can put down for very long!

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