Book Talk On: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six The year is 1999. The cold war has been over for more than a decade and for the first time in a half-century the world is free from the specter of nuclear apocalypse. It should be a time for peace and prosperity but all over the globe the embers of old animosity have been fanned to flame by the winds of freedom. Terrorism in the 21st century is an international industry. Money and expertise flow freely through the global computer net, and every type of weapon imaginable is available on the black marke ....