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Title: Bloated thriller by out-of-form author
Review: Anyone expecting the quality of "Hunt for Red October" in "Rainbow Six" will be sorely disappointed. This book is repetitive, illogical and poorly researched. For example - the Sydney Olympics will be held next August while it's winter in Australia. Clancy's plot however, is built on the premise that it'll be so hot during the Olympics that an extensive cooling system will be relied on to help spectators and competitors cope with the 90 degree+ heat. His characters are also uniformly 2-dimensional - see how action man grandad John Clarke's repeatedly bemoans his role as a desk jockey while his macho Spanish son-in-law's (Ding!?) most gruelling experience seems to be a flight from England to Australia - my seventy year old mother complains less than this anti-terrorist superman ... And there is not a scrap of humour on any of the 800 odd pages (not intentional, anyway). Don't waste your time or money.
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