Rainbow Six | Tom Clancy | Rainbow Six: Clancy's Best Novel Yet!!! =)

Rainbow Six | Tom Clancy | Intense

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Rainbow Six

	Rainbow Six Tom Clancy, 1998 - 752 pages average customer review:based on 1440 reviews view larger image
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Rainbow Six: Clancy's Best Novel Yet!!! =)

This heart-pounding book is about a newly formed elite counter-terrorist group known as Rainbow Six. The organization is "blacker than black", as only a few select hundred in Washington, D.C. even know about the organization. John Clark leads Rainbow Six, and there are two teams of counter-terrorists, all hand-picked and trained. Suddenly, terrorists strike all over the world, from Bern, Switzerland to Worldpark, Spain. Rainbow swiftly responds to these attacks with devastating speed, neutralizing the enemy forces with astonishing skill and minimal casualties. But there is something behind the numerous terrorist attacks, as the Sydney Olympics approach, and the terrorists will unleash something deadly, capable of eliminating all of mankind to simply save the environment...
In this fast paced action novel, Clancy unweaves the mystery behind the motiveless terrorist attacks occurring in alarming frequency. The book is impossible to put down once you start reading, from the exciting introduction to the unexpected ending; all illustrated through lots of detail, making you want to read more.

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Intense

Clancy really keeps you going on this one. Like inside Delta Force, this book takes you inside how these teams work and the stress they are under. Keep them coming.

Good story , but frequently poor writing

I think Tom Clancy has written some interesting novels in his career, but Rainbow Six displays some of Clancy's worst faults. The narrative is peppered with Clancy's own personal viewpoints on certain matters, reducing the suspension of disbelief so important for a thriller. To me a good writer should be an *impartial* teller of a tale, without injecting the book with the writers views on some matters. For example, a made up and fairly inoffensive example might go;

John Clark took a swig of Miller Lite and grimaced.
"Ugh, tastes like s***!" And he was right, all Miller beer tasted like s***.

Such lapses are as disconcerting as watching an intense movie and then having an actor look directly at the camera and say "I'm only doing it for the money".

Another writing fault is with national sterotypes, particularly the English. I lost count of the number of times I read such sub Spitfire pilot stuff like "Good show, old man!" "I say chaps" "Rather" and other outdated phrases. Tom Clancy seesm hellbent on injecting the most tired and cliched "Briticisms" and every oppurtunity. He seems to be wracking his brains for ways in which his English characters can say "bloody hell" "loo", "telly", "chappies", "wally" etc. Yes Mr Clancy, The "Brits" do talk differently, as you seem to delight in pointing out, but we kind of get the idea after the 100th time. I'm not English and not innately offended by any of it (I live in Scotland) but the English charcters are so overdone that if Clancy had intoduced a Scottish character I'd seriously half expect him to be called Hamish MacDougal, wear a kilt and play bagpipes. It'd be almost comical if it didn't get so tedious. And as I said most of these are *outdated* phrases. To me it's as odd as having the American characters talk ike Hopalong Cassidy or somebody from a Charlie Chan movie;

"Well gee, pardner, any news on the wherabouts of them low down horse rustlin' varmints? Let's head 'e, off at the pass"
"Say, what's the big idea?"
"Gee, you're a pretty swell fellow"

Sound ridiculous to appear in 1998 novel? Of course it is. And most Clancy national stereotypes are just as cringeworthy.

So overall, this book has me turning the pages, but it hasn't made for 100% smooth reading so far.

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