![]() The way he can come up with names that might be used in the future for the FBI like Third Echelon. He likes to write books about types of FBI type things in the future. He is the kind of author that is a future type of guy. He is the author of the Splinter Cell series, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six series, and many more. Almost all of his books are full of action and suspense. She is the lead of a small team that is in charge of technological data to help the field operative. ![]() He is working for Lambert, but is not aware that Lambert is working undercover.Īnna Grimsdottir- Anna is the communications lead. He is in charge of coordinating transportation and equipment for all of the field agents. He has been working with Sam for 19 years and never got a chance to kill him. He is an undercover Russian trying to kill Sam Fisher. He is the source between field agents, computer analysts, and hackers. Irving Lambert- The Third Echelon Coordinator. He is probably the deadliest man in the world. Sam fisher is a Third Echelon Assassin known as the “Splinter Cell.” Third Echelon is a group that is the second Black Ops but is better. The characters in this book are very good. When Sam finds out that Sarah is alive and Lambert was lying to him he went after Lambert and tried looking for her even harder. Also, Lambert tells Sarah that Sam is dead so now they are both looking for each other. But, what Sam doesn’t know is that Lambert is a person working undercover for the Russian government. I love how Colonel Irving Lambert tells Sam Fisher that his daughter Sarah is dead. If you've read any of the previous novels and enjoyed them you won't be disappointed with this iteration. If you are a Splinter Cell fan already its worth picking up, if you are on the fence, or just a fan of military non fiction its worth a look through. The story is a bit far fetched but its easy enough to suspend reality and just enjoy. This is a Same Fisher you will recognize but he has changed and you can see it in the little bit of character development present in the book. But if you can do that what you get is a good read. It feels a bit more fast paced than the previous Splinter Cell books and you must suspends a good deal of disbelief in order to enjoy it. And there is nothing wrong with that in the least. But this book was created for entertainment, not to teach or impart knowledge, it is totally a guilty pleasure. The book itself it well written if a bit cliche and predictable. All the while trying to untangle a conspiracy involving the a high-ranking Third Echelon official and cache stolen high tech weapons.Ĭonviction is a book based on a video game, the fact it carries the Tom Clancy name helps but doesn't give it a free pass. Meanwhile he is being ruthlessly hunted by a new team of Third Echelon Sprinter cell agents who have been tasked to eliminate him. To uncover rouge elements within Third Echelon. Living a life on the run Sam Fisher is now in the mercenary game and is doing dirty work all the while secretly working with his long time friend NSA agent Anna Grímsdóttir. The famous Splinter Cell Agent Sam Fisher is now considered a rouge agent by his own government. The story covers some of Sam Fisher’s time on the run between Double Agent and Conviction.Īfter saving America from the JSA terror group. Set two years before the main story of Splinter Cell: Conviction. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction By David Michaels, is a video game tie-in novel based Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell video game franchise. Overall this has been a really good series, and if you enjoy spy novels that are deep but not so deep they become boring you should check this series out. Seems like a pretty major event to happen "off-camera" to me. I'm not sure if the games fleshed this part of the story out, or we are just supposed to put it together on our own. He may turn up in a later volume I suppose. I was expecting Lambert to turn up alive at the end, showing it was a plan, but he never did so we are led to believe Sam did in fact kill Lambert. The murder itself, however, happens "off-camera."Īs you might suspect, we later find out it's part of a deep plan to flush out some terrorists and spies within the group, but it looks like Fisher really did kill Lambert, who sacrificed himself for the great good. Apparently Sam has killed his boss, Lambert, and is on the run as a traitor with the rest of Third Echelon hunting him down. This volume either was written a little differently, however, or tied deeper into the games than the other volumes because it feels like we pick up in the middle of the story. I've enjoyed all of the books in the Splinter Cell series, including this one.
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