Essay/Term paper: Rainbow six

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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 is killed before they had gotten there. The
first mission helps them organize themselves and fix a few
holes in their planning. The second mission is in Germany. An
international trader is taken hostage in his mansion/castle.
This mission goes well too, thanks to the snipers. No hostage
deaths, but all the terrorists are killed. After this mission
is over they realize they should have a helicopter and pilot on
the team, this is done. The last mission that they are called
on in the book is in Spain, in a huge amusement park. Earlier
on in the book we hear a conversation in a french high security
jail, with the Jackal and his lawyer. The Jackal tells his
lawyer he is sick of being in jail and to call his friends and
they would know what to do. The terrorists at the amusement
park are well prepared, but not well enough to take on the
Rainbow Six team. They take 30 children hostage, and demand
for the Jackal and several other prisoners release. One of the
major things that goes awary for the terrorists is that the
Rainbow six have a program that would disable all cellular
phones. They vary phon! es that the terrorists are using to
communicate, with each other. Once their communication is out Rainbow
Six easily takes them out one by one. They then take out the large
group. Only one child is killed. The terrorists do this killing to
show they are serious. One terrorist goes outside and takes a child
that is in a wheelchair and shoots her in the back. The team just had
to sit there and watch. If they had interrupted, they know more
children will die.

In the meantime while this is happening, Popov, the ex-KGB
agent now freelance is hired by an American. Popov is hired to
get people to do the job in Switzerland, the bank taking, and
the taking of the international trader in Germany. The person
that has hired him is the president of a multi-national
pharmaceutical company, that has access to and deals with
extremely deadly viruses, he is extremely wealthy. Lets call
him the Boss (sorry forgot his name). Popov has nothing to do
with the hostage taking of the children in Spain, that was the
Jackal. Popov is living in New York will he is organizing
these jobs and flies back and forth from Europe to organize
them. After all three incidents happen, Popov thought there
was something weird about the way the take downs went. So he
started watching tapes of the take downs by the media. He sees
the same person smoking a cigar after each mission, he puts
things together and realizes all the take downs are done by the
same team!
. Popov tells the Boss, who, through his numerous connections, one of them being Bill Henriksen he is the president of Global Security, finds out it is the Rainbow Six team. This worries him because they could get in the way of his ultimate goal. So he has Popov do one more job, to attack Rainbow Six in their home base, Hereford,England. Popov goes to Ireland where he knows some IRA people that would do this, for a fee of course, 5 million dollars and weapons.
The IRA people decide to go after Clark's wife and daughter,
since they are the easiest to get at, in the hospital they both
work at. Their plan works well, they take them Sandy and Pasty
hostage and they get both teams to come out and stop them. The
IRA's goal is only to take out about 5 of the Rainbow Six
team's enough to disable them. Then they have the same problem
the terrorist in Spain did they used cell phones so when
Rainbow used there scrambler they started to fall apart. Some
of the IRA people tried to escape unsuccessfully and others
stayed with the hostages to use as bargaining tools. The
physiologist on the team was able to talk them into
surrendering. No civilian casualties, but 2 Rainbow people
where killed and one injured. Most of the IRA people were
killed except a few of them and, the leader he was badly
injured. When the leader was coming out of unconsciousness
they managed tricking him into talking and telling them who put
him up to this. They man! aged to track it back to Popov, but
they could not find him, he was in New York by now.
During this time, Global Security gets a contract from the
Australian government, because they are about to host the
Olympics. The whole point of the Boss having these operations
done is to get the Australians thinking they need a security
consultant company to keep the Olympics safe. The only problem
is that the Australians have also asked that some people from
Rainbow Six be there. But the Boss tells Henriksen to go ahead
with the mission, which if successful, could mean the end of
human life on the planet as we know it! This book ends with
the goods guys winning, but you are sitting on the edge of your
seat for the last few chapters. The ending is slightly
comedic. This book was extremely well written, giving you
clues as to what is happening as it goes along. I found that
character development was done very well, you could relate to
everyone, understand them and know what they where going to do
next. But what made this book great is the plot, the way it
slowly expands and just the main idea of the plot makes you
think, what if? (If you want to know how the book ends read
on, if not stop reading, I will explain it in a few lines.) The
Boss and several thousand other people who know about this
mission are extreme environmentalists. They believe that
humankind should be wiped off the face of the plant except
them, who will treat the plant with respect. So they plant a
deadly virus at the Australian Olympics. But when Popov finds
out what they are doing he goes right to Clark, who tells his
men in Australia and they make sure the virus is not released.
Then the Rainbow team raids the environmentalists compound in
Brazil and destroy it. Only a few hundred of the important
radicals are in Brazil. The important ones (leaders) left the
compound in the States (their main headquarters) for Brail when
they knew the plan was not going well. They knew something was
wrong because they had not heard from Henriksen who was caught
trying to release the virus in Australia. The radicals
including the Boss was left totally naked in the middle of the
Brazilian rain forest. Because Clark knows they could never be
tri! ed in any court for various reasons

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."