Rainbow Six (novel)
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| Author | Tom Clancy |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jack Ryan universe |
| Genre | Techno-thriller |
| Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
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Publication date
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August 1998 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 740 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | (first edition, hardback) & (paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 39069409 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.L245 R35 1998 |
| Preceded by | Executive Orders |
| Followed by | The Bear and the Dragon |
Rainbow Six is a techno-thriller novel written by Tom Clancy. It focuses on John Clark, Ding Chavez, and a fictional multi-national counterterrorist unit codenamed Rainbow, rather than Jack Ryan and national politics. There is a series of video games by the same name.
Several NATO countries have collectively organized an elite counter terrorist unit named Rainbow composed of the best soldiers from the militaries of several nations. Based in Hereford, England (real-life home of the Special Air Service), the team is led by John Clark (who had the idea for Rainbow), a recurring character in Clancy's novels. Rainbow is "blacker than black" with its American funding directed through the U.S. Interior Department by the U.S. Congress, than through U.S. Defense Department's Office of Special Projects, with no connection to the Intelligence Community. Fewer than a hundred people in the U.S. government know that Rainbow exists.
The idea for the title comes from the United States Color-coded War Plans, specifically the Rainbow Plans of the 1930s, where Rainbow Five is the last known plan. In these plans, various countries were given a color code, and the Rainbow Plans outlined strategies for dealing with potential conflicts between coalitions of countries. Rainbow Five, for instance, which is discussed extensively in the Plan Dog memo, details several U.S. strategies for America's involvement in World War II. For Rainbow Six, the aggressor is international terrorists. "Rainbow Six" also refers to John Clark, the leader of Rainbow, because "Six" is U.S. military terminology for a unit commander. Additionally the title symbolizes the multi-national nature of the elite unit: Like a rainbow contains many colors, the unit contains many nationalities.
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