Rainbow Six [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Für viele Leser verkörpert Jack Ryan die Essenz des modernen amerikanischen Helden. Moralisch gefestigt, diszipliniert, bescheiden und doch stark, hat Ryan (wie auch seine Leinwanddarsteller Alec Baldwin und Harrison Ford) Tom Clancy zu einem der populärsten Autoren der Welt gemacht. Doch während Clancy den Ryan-Mythos konstruierte, hat er leise Ryans Schatten-Gegenstück, John Clark, geschaffen. Clark -- der bereits in Der Kardinal im Kreml, Der Schattenkrieg und Gnadenlos aufgetreten ist -- hat viele von Jack Ryans positivsten Wesenszügen. Er ist aber auch eine dunklere Gestalt, die die eher paranoiden Sensibilitäten der späten neunziger Jahren verkörpert. Wie in den ersten Seiten von Rainbow Six klargemacht wird, glauben Exmarinekampfschwimmer Clark und seine Kollegen, daß brutale, tödliche Gewalt das beste Abschreckungsmittel gegen Terrorismus ist.

Clark (alias Rainbow Six) hat den CIA verlassen, um in Großbritannien eine Organisation mit dem Decknamen "Rainbow" aufzuziehen. Ihre Aufgabe: ein Elitekommando, bestehend aus amerikanischen Agenten in Verbindung mit handverlesenen britischen, französischen und deutschen Agenten zu entsenden, um dem Terrorismus Einhalt zu gebieten. Die Entstehung von Rainbow kommt gerade zur rechten Zeit: kurz hintereinander vereitelt die Truppe drei versuchte Terroranschläge. Clark wird jedoch mißtrauisch, als sich plötzlich russische Agenten für die Arbeit von Rainbow interessieren.

Rainbow Six ist ein ansprechender Roman auf allen Ebenen, die sich Clancy-Fans wünschen können. Die Rainbow-Agenten, vom Marinekampfschwimmer bis zum ausgebildeten deutschen Bergführer, beeindrucken mit ihrem körperlichen und geistigen Können. Die Geschichte zeigt eine Faszination für Geräte zum Chiffrieren, Übermitteln und Dechiffrieren von Geheiminformationen. Und, in einer vorsichtig gesponnenen Erzählung, die gleichzeitig die Spuren der Rainbow-Mannschaft, eines früheren KGB-Agenten namens Popov, der olympischen Sicherheitsmannschaft von Australien und einer finsteren Gruppe von amerikanischen Wissenschaftlern verfolgt, lüftet Clancy kunstvoll das Geheimnis von "Shiva" im Mittelpunkt der Geschichte. Wie schneidet Clark im Vergleich mit Jack Ryan ab? Er ist möglicherweise der perfekte Held in einer Welt voller versteckten Bösewichte. --Patrick O'Kelly -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

For many readers, Jack Ryan embodies the essence of the modern American hero. Morally centred, disciplined, humble yet powerful, Ryan (and his onscreen incarnations in Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) has made Tom Clancy one of the most popular writers in the world. But while Clancy has constructed the Ryan mythology, he has also quietly established his shadow double, John Clark. Appearing in The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, and Without Remorse, Clark has many of Jack Ryan's most appealing traits, but he is also a darker figure embodying the more paranoid sensibilities of the late nineties. As is made clear from the opening pages of Rainbow Six, ex-Navy SEAL Clark and his colleagues believe violent, deadly force to be the best deterrent for terrorism.

Clark (a.k.a. Rainbow Six) has left the CIA to create an England-based organisation code-named "Rainbow". Its mission: deploy an elite squad of American operatives combined with handpicked British, French and German agents to stop terrorism in its tracks. Rainbow's emergence could not be more timely: in quick succession, the force diffuses three attempted terrorist actions. But Clark becomes suspicious when Russian agents suddenly show interest in Rainbow's work.

Rainbow Six appeals on all the levels that Clancy fans could hope for. The Rainbow operatives, from Navy SEALs to German mountain-leader school graduates, are rendered to inspire with their physical and mental prowess. The book is infatuated with the latest gadgets for scrambling, transmitting and decoding secrets. And, in a carefully woven narrative that simultaneously traces the Rainbow team, a former KGB agent named Popov, the Australian Olympic security team and a sinister group of American scientists, Clancy artfully reveals the mystery of "Shiva" at the centre of the novel. How does Clark measure up against Jack Ryan? He may be the perfect hero for a world with hidden villains. --Patrick O'Kelley -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

For many readers, Jack Ryan embodies the essence of the modern American hero. Morally centered, disciplined, humble yet powerful, Ryan (and his onscreen incarnations in Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) has made Tom Clancy one of the most popular writers in the world. But as Clancy has constructed the Ryan mythology, he has quietly established Ryan's shadow double, John Clark. Appearing in The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger, and Without Remorse, Clark has many of Jack Ryan's most appealing traits, but he is also a darker figure embodying the more paranoid sensibilities of the late '90s. As is made clear from the opening pages of Rainbow Six, ex-Navy SEAL Clark and his colleagues believe violent, deadly force to be the best deterrent for terrorism.

Clark (a.k.a. Rainbow Six) has left the CIA to create an England-based organization code-named "Rainbow." Its mission: deploy an elite squad of American operatives combined with handpicked British, French, and German agents to stop terrorism in its tracks. Rainbow's emergence could not be more timely: in quick succession, the force diffuses three attempted terrorist actions. But Clark becomes suspicious when Russian agents suddenly show interest in Rainbow's work.

Rainbow Six appeals on all the levels that Clancy fans could hope for. The Rainbow operatives, from Navy SEALs to German mountain-leader school graduates, are rendered to inspire with their physical and mental prowess. The book is infatuated with the latest gadgets for scrambling, transmitting, and decoding secrets. And, in a carefully woven narrative that simultaneously traces the Rainbow team, a former KGB agent named Popov, the Australian Olympic security team, and a sinister group of American scientists, Clancy artfully reveals the mystery of "Shiva" at the center of the novel. How does Clark measure up against Jack Ryan? He may be the perfect hero for a world with hidden villains. --Patrick O'Kelley -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

Clancy's new one is a sequel to Executive Orders (1996) starring not Clancy main-man Jack Ryan, who, though in the Oval Office, is offstage throughout, but ex-SEAL John Clark, still formidable as a CIA man leading, as "Rainbow Six," an elite counterterrorist organization against biotech billionaire John Brightling. Brightling plans to further tailor the Ebola virus featured in EO to wipe out most of humanity and restore the earth to its "natural" condition. He and his revolting crew of ecoterrorists never quite come to life, so Clark and Co. sometimes seem not to be facing a foe worthy of their steel. But technical detail abounds, as do absorbing secondary characters, including Clancy-philes' old friend Ding Chavez, who in the course of things makes Clark a grandfather, and one of Clancy's more imaginative characterizations, unscrupulous ex-KGB colonel Dimitri Popov, who at first supplies Brightling with accomplices but later recoils in horror from the man's genocidal lunacy. And there are four counterterrorist actions as grippingly depicted as anything Clancy has ever done--set pieces guaranteed to keep thriller readers flipping pages into the wee small hours. Those who have not made their peace with Clancy's political agenda and fondness for technical detail (e.g., what happens to a human head struck by a sniper round) can again steer clear in good conscience. Those who recognize Clancy as inventor of a genre of which he remains grand master will again stampede to read his latest effort, doubtless in equally good conscience. Roland Green -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

The king of the superultramegatechnothriller returns with a 2,000,000-copy first printing, though Clancy's labyrinthine new behemoth of demonic perils arrived too late for a full review. John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL and master of secret operational missions from several earlier Clancy novels, including 1993's Without Remorse, is now Rainbow Six and mastering CIA strike teams out to fight terrorists around the world. At first, an incident at a Swiss bank, the kidnaping of an international trader in Germany, and a ghastly raid on an amusement park don't seem related. But the charged clouds of good and evil build toward a typically foreshadowed and explosive Clancy finish. Namely, a supremely powerful biotech company is led by a bonkers (yet well-spoken) environmentalist with the vision for a Project even more luminously insane than any frothy megaloid plot hatched by James Bond's archenemy SPECTRE: a murderous ecoproject that may get underway during the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia, and involve the destruction of almost all human life, merely to insure the survival and greater safety of Nature itself. No disappointments here, but an unusually sumptuous cut of steak can't hide the familiarity of the menu. (First printing of 2,000,000; Book-of-the-Month Club main selection; $1,000,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .

Read by David Dukes. 6 CDs. Running time: 6 hrs. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Audio CD .

One of Clancy's best books
I read all books of Tom Clancy untill this day and I think Rainbow Six is one of his most exiting ones. The story about John Clark and Ding is different to the stories about Jack Ryan and that's what I like most because there could be no Jack Ryan story which is better than Executive Orders -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

Tom Clancy, geboren 1947 in Baltimore, begann noch während seiner Tätigkeit als Versicherungskaufmann zu schreiben und legte mit seinem Roman "Jagd auf Roter Oktober" einen Bestseller vor. Tom Clancy lebt in Maryland. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.