Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark--the man who conducts the secret operational missions that Jack Ryan can't be a part of--faces his greatest fear with Rainbow Six: a group of terrorists so extreme that its success could literally mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.
In this #1 New York Times bestselling John Clark thriller, author Tom Clancy takes readers into the shadowy world of anti-terrorism and gets closer to reality than any government would care to admit...

Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark has been named the head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, Clark is confronted with a violent chain of seemingly separate international incidents. But there is no way to predict the real threat: a group of terrorists like none the world has ever encountered, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.