Rainbow Six :: essays papers

Rainbow sextetThe book starts with a prologue that introduces us to the one maincharacter, John Clark, an ex-Navy SEAL, and two other characters,Alistair Stanley the executive commander of Rainbow Six, and Domingo(Ding) Chavez, the Captain of Team 2. There are two otherinsignificant character introduced, Clarks wife blond and his daughterPatsy, who is married to Ding. Patsy is pregnant. The other maincharacter is Dmitriy Arkadeyevich Popov, he is an ex-KGB agent who isnow working as a special consultant. He pass on become very importantlater on in the book.Clark is the commander and in charge of starting a new Europeananti-terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six is splitinto two teams Team 1 and Team 2. These teams are the bestthere is. They are based in Hereford, England, but anyEuropean rural can call on them at any time. They run 3 milesin 20 minutes every morning at 600 am. merely one team will beon-call at a time. The team that is not on-call will be doingl ive fire practices. In the branch 6 months of being inoperation they are called on three times which is a lot forthis type of thing. The first incident happens in a Swiss bankwhere terrorists have tamp downn control. They also have hostages.Team 2 successfully takes them out, with only one hostagekilled, but he is killed before they had gotten there. Thefirst mission helps them organize themselves and fix a fewholes in their planning. The second mission is in Germany. Aninternational trader is taken hostage in his star sign/castle.This mission goes well too, thanks to the snipers. No hostagedeaths, but all the terrorists are killed. After this missionis over they realize they should have a meat cleaver and pilot onthe team, this is done. The last mission that they are calledon in the book is in Spain, in a huge amusement park. Earlieron in the book we hear a conversation in a french high securityjail, with the Jackal and his lawyer. The Jackal tells hislawyer he is il l of being in jail and to call his friends andthey would know what to do. The terrorists at the amusementpark are well prepared, but not well enough to take on theRainbow Six team. They take 30 children hostage, and demandfor the Jackal and several other prisoners release. One of themajor things that goes awary for the terrorists is that the