Prolific author Tom Clancy's latest international best-seller, Rainbow Six, is unlikely to be the chosen bedtime reading of the small group of experts at the Olympic Security Command Centre (OSCC), who are charged with policing this year's Sydney Games.

The book is a 700-page epic that ends with a group of biological terrorists trying to use the closing ceremony of the Games to release the deadly flesh-eating ebola virus, which will then be transported around the world by the departing spectators.

Then again, if the Sydney closing ceremony is anything like the execrable Euro 2000 opening ceremony, then a plague of ebola on all their houses.