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Title: Detail overkill for 700 pgs, then rushed & sparse end.
Review: Clancy's last several books have been interesting reads, but not the well rounded efforts of Red October, Clear & Present Danger, and Without Remorse. When Clancy is on top of his game, you find the exhaustive detail-work of his lengthy set-ups to be fascinating and enhancing. It leads to a climax, a or series of them, that are equally detailed and thorough. When he's not, as in Rainbow Six (and his previous two efforts), the details are just formalities that come as Clancy-style literary baggage.I didn't throw the book down in anger when I finished it. But I was left with the feeling that the author had run out of energy and didn't want to devote the same attention to the books conclusion that he had to the massive text that preceded it, ... AGAIN!
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