Summary and Reviews of Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy

Media Reviews

People Magazine Clancy's characters are stiff as a starched uniform and no deeper than a foxhole, and their dialogue comes straight from the can marked 'John Wayne.' But we know that already. The reason to read Clancy is his elaborate descriptions of the latest high-tech gadgetry and his bolt-action mayhem. There's enough of both to keep readers turning Rainbow's 740 pages right up until its jolting denouement.

The New York Times Book Review - Charles Salzberg ...meticulously researched and carefully plotted--even though the conspiracy he writes of seems farfetched.

Booklist - Roland Green Those who have not made their peace with Clancy's political agenda and fondness for technical detail (e.g., what happens to a human head struck by a sniper round) can again steer clear in good conscience. Those who recognize Clancy as inventor of a genre of which he remains grand master will again stampede to read his latest effort, doubtless in equally good conscience.

Kirkus Reviews ... the charged clouds of good and evil build toward a typically foreshadowed and explosive Clancy finish. Namely, a supremely powerful biotech company is led by a bonkers (yet well-spoken) environmentalist with the vision for a Project even more luminously insane than any frothy megaloid plot hatched by James Bond's archenemy SPECTRE: a murderous ecoproject that may get underway during the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia, and involve the destruction of almost all human life, merely to insure the survival and greater safety of Nature itself. No disappointments here, but an unusually sumptuous cut of steak can't hide the familiarity of the menu.

Publishers Weekly Two years ago, Executive Orders, which thrust Jack Ryan into the Oval Office, raised the bar for its immensely popular author. This first Clancy hardcover since then, though a ripping read, matches its predecessor neither in complexity nor intensity nor even, at 752 pages, length, despite a strong premise and some world-class action sequences.