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Rainbow Six

78.6% complete
1998
Unknown
Never (or unknown...)
Adventure stories
Clark, John (Fictitious character) - Fiction
Suspense fiction
Terrorism - Fiction
Terrorism - Prevention - Fiction
Terrorists - Fiction
Thrillers
See 41
Prologue - Setting Up
1 - Memo
2 - Saddling Up
3 - Gnomes and Guns
4 - AAR
5 - Ramifications
6 - True Believers
7 - Finance
8 - Coverage
9 - Stalkers
10 - Diggers
11 - Infrastructure
12 - Wild Cards
13 - Amusement
14 - Sword of the Legion
15 - White Hats
16 - Discovery
17 - Bushes
18 - Looks
19 - Searching
20 - Contacts
21 - Stages
22 - Countermeasures
23 - Overwatch
24 - Customs
25 - Sunrise
26 - Conclusions
27 - Transfer Agents
28 - Broad Daylight
29 - Recovery
30 - Vistas
31 - Movement
32 - Blood Work
33 - The Games Begin
34 - The Games Continue
35 - Marathon
36 - Flights of Necessity
37 - Dying Flame
38 - Nature Resort
39 - Harmony
Epilogue - News
Book Cover
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 Jack Ryan World*
#9 of 17
Jack Ryan World*     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of novels written by Tom Clancy featuring the character Jack Ryan or taking place in the same fictional world.  I've only included books written by Tom Clancy in this list.

1) The Hunt for Red October
2) Patriot Games
3) Cardinal of the Kremlin
4) Clear and Present Danger
5) The Sum of All Fears
6) Without Remorse
7) Debt of Honor
8) Executive Orders
9) Rainbow Six
10) The Bear and the Dragon
11) Red Rabbit
12) The Teeth of the Tiger
13) Dead or Alive
14) Locked On
15) Threat Vector
16) Command Authority
17) Support and Defend
Copyright © 1998 by Rubicon, Inc.
For Alexandra Maria
lux mea mundi
John Clark had more time in airplanes than most licensed pilots, and he knew the statistics as well as any of them, but he still didn't like the idea of crossing the ocean on a twin-engine airliner.
May contain spoilers
His son would grow into the Brave New World, and his father would be one of those who tried to ensure that it would be a safe one - for him and all the other kids whose main tasks were learning to walk and talk.
No comments on file
Extract (may contain spoilers)
THE HELICOPTER RIDE WAS TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES exactly, and deposited Team-2 and its attachments in the general-aviation portion of the international airport.  Two vans waited, and Chavez watched his men load their gear into one of them for movement to the British Airways terminal.  There, some cops, who were also waiting, supervised the van's handling into a cargo container - which would be first off the flight when the plane arrived at Bern.

But first they had to wait for the go-mission order.  Chavez pulled out his cellular phone, flipped it open, and thumbed speed-dial number one.

"Clark," the voice said after the encryption software clicked through.

"Ding here, John.  The call come from Whitehall yet?"

"Still waiting, Domingo.  We expect it shortly.  The canton bumped it up-stairs.  Their Justice Minister is considering it now"

"Well, tell the worthy gentleman that this flight leaves the gate in two-zero minutes, and the next one after that is ninety minutes, 'less you want us to travel Swissair.  One of those in forty minutes, and another in an hour fifteen."

"I hear you, Ding.  We have to hold."

Chavez swore in Spanish.  He knew it.  He didn't have to like it.  "Roger, Six, Team-2 is holding on the ramp at Gatwick."

"Roger that, Team-2, Rainbow Six, out."

Chavez closed his phone and tucked it in his shirt pocket.  "Okay, people," he said to his men over the shriek of jet engines, "we hold here for the go-ahead."  The troops nodded, as eager to get it going as their boss, but just as powerless to make it happen.  The British team members had been there before and took it better than the Americans and the others.
"BILL, tell Whitehall that we have twenty minutes to get them off the ground, after that over an hour delay."

Tawney nodded and went to a phone in the corner to call his contact in the Foreign Ministry.  From there it went to the British Ambassador in Geneva, who'd been told that the SAS was offering special mission assistance of a technical nature.  It was an odd case where the Swiss Foreign Minister knew more than the man making the offer.  But, remarkably, the word came back in fifteen minutes: "Ja."

"We have mission approval, John," Tawney reported, much to his own surprise.

"Right."  Clark flipped open his own phone and hit the speed-dial #2 button.

"Chavez," a voice said over considerable background noise.

"We have a go-mission," Clark said.  "Acknowledge."

"Team-2 copies go-mission.  Team-2 is moving."

"That's affirmative.  Good luck, Domingo."

"Thank you, Mr. C."

 

Added: 24-Dec-2022
Last Updated: 16-Sep-2024

Publications

 03-Aug-1998
G P Putnam's Sons
Hardback
In my libraryOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
03-Aug-1998
Format:
Hardback
Cover Price:
$27.95
Pages*:
740
Catalog ID:
9808
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
43630
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-399-14413-7
ISBN-13:
978-0-399-14413-4
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
John Earle - Photographer
Lovedog Studio - Book Design
Lawrence Ratzkin - Jacket Design
Front flap:

Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
John Clark faces the world's greatest fear - and his own - in Tom Clancy's new and most extraordinary novel.

Over the course of nine novels, Tom Clancy's "genius for big, compelling plots" and his "natural narrative gift" (The New York Times Magazine) have mesmerized hundreds of millions of readers and established him as one of the preeminent storytellers of our time.  Rainbow Six, however, goes beyond anything he has done before.

At its heart is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL of Without Remorse, well known from several of Clancy's novels as a master of secret operational missions.  Whether hunting warlords in Japan, druglords in Colombia, or nuclear terrorists in the United States, 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 in Rainbow Six.

Newly named the head of an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism, Clark is looking forward to getting his teeth into a new mission, but the opportunities start coming thicker and faster than anyone could have expected: an incident at a Swiss bank, the kidnapping of an international trader in Germany, a terrible raid on an amusement park in Spain.
(Continued on back flap)

Back flap:

(Continued from front flap)

Each episode seems separate, discrete, yet the timing disturbs Clark.  Is there a connection?  Is he being tested?  With the help of his close associates, executive officer Alistair Stanley and strike team leaders Domingo Chavez and Peter Covington, Clark tries to figure out where all this activity is heading, but there is no way to predict the real threat: a group of terrorists like none the world has ever encountered, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on this earth as we know it.

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

As Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Rainbow Six, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, knife-edge suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters.  This is Clancy at his best - and there is none better.

Tom Clancy is the author of The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears, Without Remorse, Debt of Honor, and Executive Orders.  He is also the author of Into the Storm: A Study in Command, with General Fred Franks, Jr. (Ret.), and Submarine, Armored Cav, Fighter Wing, Marine, and Airborne; and a co-creator of the Op-Center, Power Plays, and Net Force series.  He lives in Maryland.
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Canada: $38.99
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03-Aug-1998
G P Putnam's Sons
Hardback

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 Tom Clancy
Birth: 12 Apr 1947 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Death: 01 Jan 2013 Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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