Rainbow Six
By: Tom Clancy
Series: Jack Ryan
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9780399143908
Subjects: Terrorists -- Fiction; Terrorism -- Prevention -- Fiction
Other titles: Rainbow 6
Description: Newly named the head of an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism, John 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.

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.