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Summary of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Tom Clancy

Rainbow Six

This book was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York, USA.

Copyright date is 1998. There are 740 pages in this book.

Thomas L. Clancy, Jr. was born on the 12th of April 1947, he is married

and lives in Maryland, USA. Clancy's novels can be classified as

Military-Techno-Thrillers. He has written fiction and non-fiction books,

Rainbow Six is a fiction book. As for other titles, well there are just

to many to list, in total 23. Some books that he has written are The

Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, to list a

few. According to Clancy "Rainbow Six, is one of my all time

favourites."

The book starts with a prologue that introduces us to the one main

character, John Clark, an ex-Navy SEAL, and two other characters,

Alistair Stanley the executive commander of Rainbow Six, and Domingo

(Ding) Chavez, the Captain of Team 2. There are two other insignificant

character introduced, Clark's wife Sandy and his daughter Patsy, who is

married to Ding. Patsy is pregnant. The other main character is Dmitriy

Arkadeyevich Popov, he is an ex-KGB agent who is now working as a

‘special consultant'. He will become very important later on in the

book.

Clark is the commander and in charge of starting a new European

anti-terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six is split into two

teams; Team 1 and Team 2. These teams are the best there is. They are

based in Hereford, England, but any European country can call on them at

any time. They run 3 miles in 20 minutes every morning at 6:00 am. Only

one team will be on-call at a time. The team that is not on-call will

be doing live fire practices. In the first 6 months of being in

operation they are called on three times which is a lot for this type of

thing. The first incident happens in a Swiss bank where terrorists have

taken control. They also have hostages. Team 2 successfully takes them

out, with only one hostage killed, but he

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