The main characater in Rainbow Six is John Clark, Clancy's favourite 'spook', and his second most famous character after Jack Ryan. Clark has many of Ryan's more appealing traits, but he also has a different side to his character, representing the more violent and darker parts of humanity. In this adventure, Clark is the head of a new multinational anti-terrorist group called Rainbow. He teams up with Domingo "Ding" Chavez, his trusty sidekick.

Instead of his usual story backdrops, namely the Cold War and international espionage, Rainbow Six's main focus is on the pre-eminent fear of the 90's - the threat of a biological catastrophe and mass

Throughout the book, Clark and Chavez run to the rescue of banks, financiers, and theme parks being held hostage by terrorists. What is the common thread connecting these events? As usual, Clancy feeds the reader a stream of seemingly unrelated bits of information concerning the Rainbow team, a former KGB agent, the Australian Olympic Security team, and an evil group of American scientists. Later, he weaves these bits together later in the novel, to slowly reveal the secret of Horizon Corporation's secret plan to unleash their ultimate virus - Shiva.

As one would expect from Tom Clancy, all the technical information about the inner workings of a hostage rescue team is very high quality. Everything from planting an explosive to sniper rifles to high tech surveillance gear becomes very familiar to the reader because he deals with it many

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Approximate Word count = 567
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)