Rainbow Six Essay, Research Paper

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.”