content: It kills me to say this, it really does, but Rainbow Six is a bit of a dud. I am afraid that TC did not have his full attention on this one. The pieces are all there, but they just don't connect in the inimitable Clancy fashion. There is a lack of focus both to machinations of the bad guys, and the heroics of our heroes, the plot meanders hither and yon, and the denouement I found totally completely predictable and therefore boring. Nonetheless, I did little but read it over the course of 2 days, however I fear that Rainbow Six will not be re-read and savored numerous times. If this had been a first effort, straight-to-paperback work from a new novelist, I would be satisfied, as with a Big Mac grabbed on the run.....but it is certainly not the multi-course, gourmet feast I would expect from the latest Tom Clancy yarn.