Tom Clancy · 1998 · thriller
Tom Clancy's 1998 thriller. John Clark leads Rainbow, a secret multinational counterterror unit based in England, through a rising storm of hostage sieges and attacks across Europe. Behind them all lies a monstrous conspiracy - eco-extremists who mean to loose an engineered plague on humanity - and the trail leads at last to their hidden fortress deep in the Brazilian rainforest.
- 1Hereford
At a secret base in the English countryside, John Clark stands up Rainbow, an elite multinational counterterrorism team - and finds it thrown almost at once into a bewildering wave of hostage-takings and terror across Europe.
- 2Bern
From a bank siege in Bern to a bloodbath at a Spanish theme park, Rainbow crushes attack after attack - until Clark begins to sense a hidden hand behind the violence, deliberately testing and baiting his new team.
- 3The Amazon
The conspiracy leads to a fortified compound deep in the Brazilian rainforest, where fanatics of the Horizon project mean to release an engineered plague and cull mankind - and Rainbow strikes to stop the end of the world.