John Clark, the ex-navy SEAL of Clancy's 'Without Remorse' and well known from several of Clancy's novels as "the dark side of Jack Ryan" - the man who conducts the secret operational missions Ryan can have no part of. Whether hunting warlords in Japan or nuclear terrorists in the United States, Clark is efficient and deadly, but even he has ghosts in his past, demons that must be exorcised. And nothing is more demonic than the peril he must face in 'Rainbow Six'.
Newly named the head of an international task force dedicated to combatting terrorism, Clark is looking forward to getting his teeth into a new mission, but the opportunities start coming thicker and faster than anyone could have expected: an incident at a Swiss bank, the kidnapping of an international trader in Germany, a terrible raid on an amusement park in Spain.
Each episode seems separate, discreet, yet the timing disturbs Clark. Is there a connection? Is he being tested? With the help of his close associates, executive officer Alistair Stanley and strike team leaders Domingo Chavez and Peter Covington, Clark tries to figure out where all this activity is heading, but there is not way to predict the real threat: a group of terrorists like none the world has ever encountered before, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on this earth as we know it.
It is Tom Clancy's most shocking story ever - and closer to reality than any government would care to admit.
