Genre : Realistic Fiction
Authors : Clancy, Tom
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a thrilling look into the world of espionage, terrorism, and counter-terrorism. Clancy gives the reader the sense that he has the inside information on everything. This helps the book a lot by adding the impression of realism, although the reader needs to have a slight idea what is going on; if the words H&K MP5 don’t mean anything to you, this might not be your kind of book.
After reading this book, you will find yourself asking, Can this actually happen? 'Might it already have?' This adds a few points to the book's rating, and progresses it to the point where it is not your average book. The story is well developed, and keeps you reading for hours at a time. Many times during the course of this book did I look up at the clock to find it reading 1:00, as I thought to myself, 'One more chapter, then I'll go to sleep.'
The only drawback to this book is that at some points, I felt more like I was reading James Bond instead of a Tom Clancy thriller. There are some points in the plot where it seems a little far-fetched, and unfortunately this makes you realize at sporadic points in the book that yes, you are actually reading a book. All of the detail that Clancy gives fails to hide this one weakness, and this is why I felt it deserved an '8', and not a '9' in the rating.