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Rainbow Six

By: Tom Clancy
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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Whether hunting warlords in Japan, druglords in Colombia, or nuclear terrorists in the United States, John Clark is efficient and deadly. But even he has ghosts in his past, demons that must be exorcised. And nothing is more demonic than the peril he must face as the commander of a covert multi-national anti-terrorism squad known as Rainbow.

Almost as soon as the group is formed, three terrorist attacks occur that seem unrelated at first, but may be the beginning of a new brand of terrorism like nothing the world has ever encountered before. Their success could literally mean the end of life on this Earth as we know it.

Rainbow Six is Tom Clancy's most shocking story ever - and closer to reality than any government would care to admit.

©1998 Rubicon Inc. (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Historical Fiction Fiction

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Critic reviews

"Clancy is in his element.... When the door blows open and the shooting starts, nobody does it better." ( Dallas Morning News)
"Clancy has penned a thrilling novel, full of paranoia, intrigue, terror, and tension that you can cut with a knife. His millions of fans, as well as newcomers to the genre, will eat this one up, and deservedly so! Highly recommended." ( Barnes & Noble)
"Rainbow's engagements, which occupy the bulk of the novel, are immensely suspenseful, breathtaking combos of expertly detailed combat and primal emotion." ( Publisher's Weekly)
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You have to hand it to Clancy, this could easily have broken this down into a series of three books and made more money. There is so much storyline in here and yet I never felt that he was just filling it out. The story itself is genuinely thought-provoking and I would say has become more relevant with the passage of time rather than less. This is partly because unusually there is plenty of time and even at points sympathy given to the motivations and detailed methods of the "bad guys".

The main protagonists are well detailed and thoroughly rounded out, the action seems generally well thought through rather than of the simple shoot 'em up style even if there were one or two puzzling oversights by the Rainbow team that went unexplained. If there is a downside it is a slight tendency of the author to use a cliched style of representing some characters, particularly the English who say "good man" just a tad too much for example . . . This is exacerbated by the style of narration. Now I can only imagine just how difficult it is to present a 36 hour audio book but Prichard has a strong American accent and he didn't seem to be able to change pitch, tone or pace to fully represent the widely varied characters and plot devices quite enough.

That said, very glad I read it, great value for this length of compelling story and I will be back for more of Clancy's books!

A whole series in a book!

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Passes the time and becomes a compulsive plot as it develops but so let down by the narration. At tines the narrators attempt at the various accents was comical and the woeful attempt at the British accent for some of the characters distracted from the overall effect of the audio book.

Dreadful narration

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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

The book, yes, this narrator, no

Who was your favorite character and why?

Clark has been a favourite of mine since Without Remorse. Shame the same man is narrating that, otherwise I would have bought it.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Truly weird inflection. Very flat voice. No attempt to imbue any character with.....character! A shame, since I also bought Cardinal of the Kremlin with the same guy. He made a very exciting story dull and boring.

Did Rainbow Six inspire you to do anything?

Yes, make sure I never buy another book narrated by this man.

Any additional comments?

Yes, don't use this narrator again. Ever!

Great story, appalling narrator

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An amazing novel, thoroughly enjoyable.
Can’t wait to find another Tom Clancy novel.
I bought this because I have rainbow six siege pc game. This novel hasn’t disappointed.

Story wise full of Acton and intrigue

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The audio quality at the start was to be desired. For about one hour it sounded like it was only in one channel.

Audio quality

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Best of the Clancy books. Usually I prefer the Jack Ryan but after reading the reviews thought I would try this one. certainly was a good idea. plenty of action and a great story.

Best yet

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Absolutely couldn’t stop listening, I totally ended up absorbed in the world and felt I knew John Clark!

Brilliant

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Really enjoyed this audio book.

Good story well told. Looking forward to the next one

Great Tom Clancy

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Start off with several sub stories, but then are moulded into the main event. The characters are very believable.

Fast paced

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really good, good extra character development and a nice change from normal jack Ryan novels

Clancy at his best, different aspect from Ryan

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