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Review of Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six

By Chris. on 13th Apr 2002

Chris.'s Ratings
Value for money2/10
Overall value1/10
no Chris.'s recommendation

Good Points

Hostage rescue Scenes are quite gripping.

Bad Points

Most anti-climactic action thriller novel I have ever read
Characters have little depth.

General Comments

Rainbow Six is Clancy running on autopilot. Whilst the original concept behind it - an elite multinational counterrorist special ops team is created by NATO to deal with global terrorism in the post cold war world - is intriguing and potentially thrilling to read about, the novel as a whole fails to capitalise on this. The characters (with the possible exception of a character who isn't even one of the soldiers) are dull and we have no pathos with them. Clark, the dark horse hero of previous Clancy novels, has become a boring desk jockey and none of his comrades are memorable. There are too many small characters for the author to be able to develop any of them in enough detail. This may seem unlikely in an 800 page book, but the space is taken up with (admittedly exciting)hostage rescue scenes and a mass of irrevelent detail, which is often also incorrect (cooking beef prevents BSE, for example) and stereotyped depictions of foreign people and customs (Australians and Brits will be the most offended here). And the ending is so appalling! It's like Clancy got bored and decided to stop. No build up of tension or anything. Rubbish. Avoid like the plague.

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  1. Genocyber. on 13th Jun 2003

    Did you actually read the book?



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