This is a first: actually finishing a Tom Clancy book. In the past I have started but not completed Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears and The Cardinal of the Kremlin, and I will say that none of these are necessarily bad (all, in fact, are very well written), but undertaking politically dense techno thrillers that feature many chapters of high ranking government officials talking complex plot points was somewhat about the head of a man who, at the time, was only 20 years of age.
Rainbow Six, then, was something of a revelation. Clearly not as good a book as the others I’ve attempted (all of which I will be more than happy to revisit after this), Six is still hugely enjoyable. The plot is ridiculous (eco terrorists commit terrorist acts in order to obtain a security job at the Sydney Olympics with the plan of releasing the Ebola virus on the unsuspecting crowd) but the moments of the rainbow team doing their thing have a certain boyish charm to them. Big guns, macho men and lots of fighting, it’s like an 80’s action movie with extra technology.
I liked very much.
4/5
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