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Title: Rainbow Six Wasn't the Detour, It Was the New Direction
Review: With this effort, Tom Clancy has dropped from my "automatic hardback purchase" list; the sneering, soulless _Rainbow Six_ has given way to the appalling excesses of _The Bear and the Dragon_. The primary plot line, as usual, is aggressive and intriguing, but the villains' brains in Clancyland have apparently not paid their oxygen bill for a couple of books now. Even worse, one of the subplots -- the one which closes the book down -- is leeringly written and utterly offensive. There's a decent story in here somewhere, but only an editor with a red (pen) army could have salvaged this book's feng shui.
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