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Rainbow Six
by Tom Clancy
I have not read a Tom Clancy book before but some of his titles sounded familiar as movies that my father fancies. I love thrillers but I do not read military or political ones typically. This one was recommended to me. I was pretty intimidated because this was a close to 900 pages book and it would probably be the longest book I ever read. I was not sure what this book was about as well so it was taking a risk.
In general, I found quite alot of the military and western jargon hard to understand. But the writing had a cinematic quality that matched the plot. I found the story to be quite slow at times but very exciting at others. At it's best, it was atmospheric and gave so much insight into covert operations and espionage. The hostage scenes were very tense and well written, I was at the edge of my seat.
At worst, the story was predictable. How can you NOT read those words and not guess what could happen?
Spoilers...
Eventually someone would have figured out Rainbow Six's identity and that they are not an elite police team from the country that was targetted eg. Bern, Spain and Germany. The next thing was that, their families would be targetted. After the author so clearly wrote about Price smoking his pipe in view of the media and Patsy and Sandy working at the local hospital.
Towards the end I felt that some parts would have been sped up, it dragged quite abit. I have to praise the author's knowledge and research into writing so much indept content for the military and it's workings as well as the defense agencies world wide. But I have to say that the bad guys in this book were well set up. At first I was confused because not much was revealed. But the premise for the villains is actually quite scary as it could easily be real. The ending was unexpected and for that I have to praise the author's thinking.
The characters were multi facted and I liked that we had such a diverse crew in terms of nationality. Interestingly the actions of our main characters John Clark and Domingo "Ding" Chavez are quite gray. I could easily say they were not completely good or bad. Their actions sure are questionable at times. That ending where Clark makes all the people from the Project strip naked and leaves them in the jungle in Manuas made me wonder if it was okay to do it. I expected him to arrest them. But in a way the villains logic was faulty.
I was initially worried that this book would be hard to read because it is part of a series but it felt like a standalone. Luckily for me. I enjoyed this much more than I expected.
In general, I found quite alot of the military and western jargon hard to understand. But the writing had a cinematic quality that matched the plot. I found the story to be quite slow at times but very exciting at others. At it's best, it was atmospheric and gave so much insight into covert operations and espionage. The hostage scenes were very tense and well written, I was at the edge of my seat.
At worst, the story was predictable. How can you NOT read those words and not guess what could happen?
Spoilers...
Eventually someone would have figured out Rainbow Six's identity and that they are not an elite police team from the country that was targetted eg. Bern, Spain and Germany. The next thing was that, their families would be targetted. After the author so clearly wrote about Price smoking his pipe in view of the media and Patsy and Sandy working at the local hospital.
Towards the end I felt that some parts would have been sped up, it dragged quite abit. I have to praise the author's knowledge and research into writing so much indept content for the military and it's workings as well as the defense agencies world wide. But I have to say that the bad guys in this book were well set up. At first I was confused because not much was revealed. But the premise for the villains is actually quite scary as it could easily be real. The ending was unexpected and for that I have to praise the author's thinking.
The characters were multi facted and I liked that we had such a diverse crew in terms of nationality. Interestingly the actions of our main characters John Clark and Domingo "Ding" Chavez are quite gray. I could easily say they were not completely good or bad. Their actions sure are questionable at times. That ending where Clark makes all the people from the Project strip naked and leaves them in the jungle in Manuas made me wonder if it was okay to do it. I expected him to arrest them. But in a way the villains logic was faulty.
I was initially worried that this book would be hard to read because it is part of a series but it felt like a standalone. Luckily for me. I enjoyed this much more than I expected.