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 More...

I found this very enjoyable. Tom Clancy writes an excellent espionage novel here. It is unfortunately somewhat predictable, but it still was exciting and a refreshingly quick read. It is very detailed story, not only the events (truly Julius Caesar was right when he said "In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes"), but the technical information as well. Clancy puts himself easily into the shoes of the various characters even though many of them are diverse and have diametric More...

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' More...

Tom Clancy has a way of gripping the reader (or some readers, anyway) with his uper-tech/macho way of developing a tale, in this case about a NATO supported black ops counter-terrorist response team (led by past black ops fave John Clark and his sidekick Ding Chavez), and about a massive, global threat by "tree-hugging" environmentalists to use germ warfare to eliminate the world population and to start Earth over, purified of humans, except for a select elite of 3000. While the black ops respon More...

What can I say? Wow! Right from the start, that most excellent of storytellers, Tom Clancy, throws us into action with a detailed yet gripping account of a hijacking. In some of his previous books (most notably Patriot Games, Executive Orders and The Sum of All Fears) the story dies for a hundred pages or more as Clancy explains the story (and regrettably, this has resulted in many readers stopping reading mid-way through a book...
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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 More...

This is honestly one of the best books I have ever read, and I haven't even finished the book yet. However I wouldn't recommend this book to everyone. The weak stomached should probably refrain from picking up this book due to the gruesome descriptions and depictions the acclaimed author and ex-NAVY SEAL gives during the book. One of the main reasons why I really kike this book is because a clear and vivid image of what is going on can be created so easily and the strategy that is behind every m More...

In this next book by Tom Clancy, he departs on a tangent from the Jack Ryan saga to follow John Clark, as he did earlier in his book Without Remorse. As part of the new post–Cold War world, terrorism is rising to be a major area of threat, as evidenced from Clancy's two earlier books, and also from our world situation today. In response to this threat, Clark, with the endorsement of President Ryan (who basically doesn't figure in the book), starts a special international squad, Rainbow, of highl More...

The action scenes in Rainbow Six are excellent. Made up primarily of hostage-taking scenes, they are tense and exciting, and Clancy's writing conveys the urgency of the situation and the concerns of the protagonists well. They are spread evenly throughout the book, and they're all gripping and entertaining.

Outside of the action scenes, Clancy's prose is serviceable, for the most part, but marred by repetition, poor flow, and a tendency to ramble. One almost gets a feeling of deja vu at some poin More...

I have read all of Tom Clancy's fiction so far and have been rarely dissappointed. I thoroughly enjoyed this entry as well, although it seems to be written at a level one notch below his usual standards. There is lots of action and lots of insights into the world of anti-terrorism but I felt one element was missing. I never found myself fearful of danger. All of the Rainbow organization are supermen with little chance of being bested. You knew they were going to win out every time; the interest More...

Rainbow Six marks my foray into the works of Tom Clancy. As I had heard much of this prolific author and done some research about his stories, I had moderate hopes about this book. I was not disappointed.

The ninth book (by publication date) in the Jack Ryan (Ryanverse) series, Rainbow Six is very interesting. It details the attempt of a radical environmentalist group's endeavors to save the world by killing most of the earth's population. They engineer a modified strand of the Ebola virus (nick More...

Espionage is always a favorite of mine, more particularly in films than in books as it seems better a visual than what words can offer. Nonetheless I read this a few years ago because I loved the title. I think I may have played the video game, too, but not so much that I remember enjoying. It was just after the film 'The Sum of All Fears' came out and Liev Schreiber played John Clark (a mere supporting role there, whereas here the main player), and quite well. I imagined him older here, as he i More...

I've recently gone back to read one of my favorite authors from childhood. I devoured Clancy in middle school, and thought it would be fun to check in on a few I had around that I hadn't yet read. While this was a fun book, good grief it didn't need to be nearly 900 pages. What amounts to 4 action scenes and a bad Bond plot is dragged out by at least 300 unnecessary pages. As expected from Clancy, lots of cool, if jingoistic, military scenes, but the man was never much at developing character, a More...

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 More...

Rainbow Six is one of my favorite action/thriller novels so far. The dialogue is slow but well written, and Clancy managed to get a few laughs out of me by the end. I also liked the plot, for the reason that it wasn't just another "terrorists hijack a nuke and go nuts" storyline like it easily could have been. The fact that Clancy chose to make extreme naturalists/conservationists the enemies makes Rainbow Six stand out among the stack of novels that feature Clancy or Ludlum characters but are s More...

This is my favourite of the Clancy books that feature the recurring characters, in this case it's John Clark and Ding!!! And with the subject of Counter-Terrorism. It was also my first Clancy book, and after reading this was hooked! I started reading the Tom Clancy series in order, and every book so far has been excellent.



I coudn't put this book down - one of the tensest Clancy books I've read. The buildups to the meticulously planned counter-terrorist action scenes were some of the best I've re More...

I picked this up in the airport looking for some light pulp fiction for our trip to Alaska. Clancy didn't disappoint. His focus on the heavy training and attitude of the Six squad was a lot of fun, and probably very accurate knowing his familiarity and level of research in military topics. His portrayal of the eco-terrorists was a lot of fun too. He paints a great caricature (though I think a lot of people on the right generally think of environmentalists this way) of insane, anti-human "natural More...

This heart pounding thriller is set in England and tells the story of an intelligence agency and a special air service called Rainbow. Soon after its establishment a bank in Switzerland is robbed and they are sent in to handle the situation. They are successful at getting inside the bank and executing terrorist to stop the death of innocent civilians. Soon after, german terrorists obtain fake codes for the international trading markets. Rainbow sends out disguised shooters and they handle the si More...

A step away from Jack Ryan, although he still lurks in the background. Unfortunately, this novel marks a decided slump in the quality of Clancy’s writing. There is nothing wrong with the story, although I found the motivation of the bad guys a bit too James Bond’ish. I just did not feel a compelling need to finish the book. It was a bit dull, especially compared to earlier Clancy are. You won’t miss anything by skipping directly to The Bear and the Dragon.

Some say that he does not write anymore, More...

This book left me feeling 'meh'. I planned on giving it 3 stars, but after tying it up in the last couple chapters I felt the need to downgrade. I hadn't read Tom Clancy before, so maybe he always goes into way too much detail outlining every character's thought process. Even some of the late-added crazy Environmentalists were allowed to tell me over and over how they feel that the killing of any animal is wrong, yadda yadda yadda. I got the point several hundred pages ago, thanks.

The ending its More...

I am a fan of Tom Clancy. I usually enjoy his patriotic themes, his fast action, his understanding of the current world and America's place in it, but in Rainbow Six, Clancy failed me.

This book is about a group of men gathered together from several European countries to be eternally on call to answer terrorist threats wherever they may occur. All of them are smart, all of them are superbly trained, and all of them are utterly professional in the execution of their duties. Clancy's identificatio More...

This could have been a good book. The story-line was interesting, a pharmacuetical company with the power and knowhow to orchestrate the end of human existence by spreading an engineered strain of Ebola world-wide using the ventilation system set up for the Sydney Olympics. Your reading about their plans and human testing and how the world will be once the human population disappears leaving only a handful of select people to bring nature back to the way it should be, and you can't wait to read More...

My husband owns every Tom Clancy book known to man. And so I, too, own every Tom Clancy book known to man. When we were dating, in an attempt to understand his literary stylings (and also wanting to seem "cool" to this not-so-talkative boy), I asked for his recommendation of the best Clancy book for me to read. He took quite some time to think it over and came up with this selection, saying it wasn't too "technical" and was very "team oriented." Did he know me or what?

For a humanities major, thi More...

One of my favorite Clancy novels, right behind Without Remorse. John Clark faces challenges he never faced before, commanding troops without taking part of the operations. Domingo Chaves, the fiery Latino leads Team Two on missions he never had dreamed about in his time with his Light Infantry Unit from Clear and Present Danger.
This fast paced, roller coaster ride of excitement takes us into the life of Special Operators and their struggle to save lives of innocent people, and to end the lives More...

Another serving of jinjoism and macho pablum from Tom Clancy. This book is essentially a sequeal to Without Remorse, and very similar thematically to that book. It features the same main character, John Clark and includes a bunch of revenge killing by a group of amoral special forces soldiers. This doesn't so much illustrate the ambiguity of military violence though, since all the characters seem to be unable to reflect on their actions and instead mouth idiot platitudes about serving God and co More...

great book kept interesting the whole way through which is no small achievement for an 800 page book the reasons i liked it were its engaging style, complex plot, in depth characters, strong real life research and brilliant fight scenes. Tom Clancy’s style i found very engaging because of the way that he can add details while not drifting off the story too much and his in depth interesting writing. The plot while not overly fast paced was complex enough to make up for it and kept on twisting unt More...

In which an incredibly silly plot by a group of Environmental Extremists is put down by a super-team of anti-terror special forces. Clancy was quite clearly losing his grip on reality by the time he wrote this. The villains are so over-the-top as to be ridiculous and the lantern jawed heroes (all very clearly conservative family men) are just too unstoppable that the whole exercise is daft. Clancy also seems to think that British and Australians all talk like Biggles and that an outsider cannot More...

This book was surprisingly bad. Clancy's flair for telling an exciting story took a vacation on this one. The basic plot isn't very interesting to begin with and then he fills the book with pages of exposition on the environment and government and I felt like I was at a lecture, not reading a novel. The terrorist plots the group foil along the way to the main story are poorly executed. The team never misses a shot or takes a misstep while the bad guys are like Keystone cops. When you get to the More...

Instead of one stage for combat, there are several, and each subsequent stage is more dangerous than the last. The enemies on the ground are the usual foreign suspects, but the orchestrators are based right here at home, one working near the Oval Office, and the isolated attacks are merely a distraction for something much larger.

Rainbow 6 is your traditional Clancy tome. It was good, but for some reason this time I felt the length more than in previous titles. The trouble is that if pressured to More...