The book starts with a prologue that introduces us to the one main character, John Clark, an ex-Navy SEAL, and two other characters, Alistair Stanley the executive commander of Rainbow Six, and Domingo (Ding) Chavez, the Major of Team 2. They’re are two other insignificant character introduced, Clark's wife Sandy and his daughter Patsy, who is married to Ding. Patsy is pregnant. The other main character is Dmitriy Arkadeyevich Popov; he is an ex-KGB agent who is now working as a ‘special consultant'.

Clark is the commander and in charge of starting a new European anti-terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six is split into two teams; Team 1 and Team 2. These teams are the best there is. They are based in Hereford, England, but any European country can call on them at any time.

Brazil and destroy it. Only a few hundred of the important radicals are In Brazil. The important ones (leaders) left the compound in the States (their main headquarters) for Brail when they knew the plan was not going well. They knew something was wrong because they had not heard from Henriksen who was caught trying to release the virus in Australia. The radicals including the Boss were left totally naked in the middle of the Brazilian rain forest. Because Clark knows they could never be tried in any court for various reasons.

They run 3 miles in 20 minutes every morning at 6:00 am. Only one team will be on-call at a time. The team that is not on-call will be doing live fire practices. In the first 6 months of being in operation they are called on three times which is a lot for this type of thing. The first incident happens in a Swiss bank where terrorists have taken control. They also have hostages. Team 2 successfully takes them out, with only one hostage killed, but he is killed before they had gotten there. The first mission helps them organize themselves and fix a few holes in their planning.

The IRA people decide to go after Clark's wife and daughter, since they are the easiest to get at, in the hospital they both work at. Their plan works well, they take them Sandy and Pasty hostage and they get both teams to come out and stop them. The IRA's goal is only to take out about 5 of the Rainbow Six team's enough to disable them. Then they have the same problem the terrorist in Spain did they used cell phones so when Rainbow used there scrambler they started to fall apart. Some of the IRA people tried to escape unsuccessfully and others stayed with the hostages to use as bargaining tools. The physiologist on the team was able to talk them into surrendering. No civilian casualties, but 2 Rainbow people where killed and one injured. Most of the IRA people were killed except a few of them and, the leader he was badly injured. When the leader was coming out

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