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| | Salon Books | Rainbow Six |
 | | In fact, like DeLillo's "White Noise," the plot of Clancy's 10th novel, "Rainbow Six," revolves around an "airborne toxic event." An international band of eco-terrorists funded by a pharmaceutical company CEO are plotting to unleash a deadly Ebola-like virus upon the entire world. |
 | | The hero of Clancy's earlier novels, Jack Ryan, is absent here, but "Rainbow Six" offers another familiar face in Jack Clark, who's called upon to head Rainbow, an ultra-secret international anti-terrorist commando team based in England. |
 | | Except for the introduction of a people-finding device that reads enemies' heartbeats in the field (Clancy claims it exists), there are no new techno-marvels in "Rainbow Six." And the author stretches his narrative powers so thin and voices his politics so stridently that the results are flimsy even by his own standards. |
| www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/08/25sneaks.html (547 words) |
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