Books in series
#1
Splinter Cell
2004
FREEDOM HAS A COST. ONE MAN PAYS THE PRICE.
In response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats to the United States, the National Security Agency has ushered forth the new dawn of intelligence-gathering techniques. The top-secret initiative is dubbed Third Echelon.
Its existence denied by the U.S. government, Third Echelon deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, nearly invisible, and deadly. And he has the right to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect American freedoms.
His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Cel®.
#2
Operation Barracuda
2005
As part of a top-secret initiative called Third Echelon, National Security Agency special operative Sam Fisher has been given license to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect America. And he does...
#3
Checkmate
2006
HE OPERATES OUTSIDE OF EVERY LAW ... AND KILLS IN THE LINE OF DUTY.Few know he exists. But when millions of American lives are at stake, Third Echelon special operative Sam Fisher is the man to depend on. He handles covert missions either too sensitive or too risky for even the CIA or FBI. And he operates alone.
Fisher is called off of a training exercise to intercept a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material and heading straight for the U.S. coast. He has minutes to disable the ship-or die trying. While he races to beat the clock, another attack has hit its target. As the residents of a small town in New Mexico start dying of radiation poisoning, Fisher weaves through a tangled web of clues to find the mastermind behind the strikes: one of the greatest enemies of the free world ...
All in a days work for a Splinter Cell®.
#4
Fallout
2007
HE'S A ROGUE AGENT-ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF FREEDOM.
Officially, he doesn't exist. Working outside of the law and under the radar, Third Echelon special operative Sam Fisher takes risks the CIA and FBI won't take. And he's America's number-one weapon in the war against terrorism.
An Old friend of Fischer's, a former Justice Department investigator, is found dead of radiation poisoning. Trace amounts in the man's body point Fisher to a poison so lethal that only a few countries produce it. Following the radiation trail, Fisher winds up in Kyrgystan, where a radical Islamic leader who dreams of the past will do anything in his power to ensure that the future is destroyed – by hitting the world where it hurts: oil.
Only one man stands in his way. Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell®.
#5
Conviction
2009
TRAITOR——OR HERO?
Third Echelon's Sam Fisher is one of the deadliest men in the world. Even the FBI and CIA are in the dark about the black ops that he takes on. He's known as a Splinter Cell, and sometimes he's the only force holding the country together...
Third Echelon is training new recruits who will be given a necessary but terrible mission. They must capture or kill one of their own, a man who's gone rogue and sold out his government...
Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell®.
#6
Endgame
2009
The National Security Agency's top-secret initiative to protect the United States from potential threats has been dubbed the Third Echelon. It deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, nearly invisible, and deadly. And he has the right to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect American freedoms.His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Cell®Third Echlon.
Operative Fisher knows that several disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. What he doesn’t know is that a stunning piece of evidence has been uncovered that points to the mole who sold out his government…
#7
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Firewall
2022
A brutal enemy from the past. An unstoppable cyber-weapon. A mission against all odds.
When a lethal assassin returns from the dead, veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher finds himself facing off against a dark mirror of his own deadly skills.
Forced into a reluctant partnership with the newest recruit to the Splinter Cell program—his own daughter, Sarah—Sam is thrust into a race against time as a sinister threat to global security is revealed.
A powerful cyber-warfare technology known as Gordian Sword—capable of cutting through any firewall in existence—is in play, to be auctioned off to the highest bidder in a rogue's gallery of terrorists, criminals and renegade states.
Sam, Sarah and their allies must work together to find the truth behind this grave threat and stop the weapon falling into the wrong hands, but standing in the way is the only man Sam Fisher could never kill ...
#8
Dragonfire
2023
A heart-stopping military thriller from Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell – betrayed, hunted and disavowed, Sam Fisher’s toughest mission has just begun
Inside North Korea, veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher finds himself on the run when a top-secret covert mission goes fatally wrong. Betrayed by his allies, hunted by his adversaries, and disavowed by his own agency, Sam is stranded deep inside hostile territory – and his only chance of survival is to uncover a murderous plot that reaches into the heart of the hermit state, and beyond. Meanwhile, Fisher’s estranged daughter Sarah risks everything to assemble an off-the-books effort to find her missing father before his luck runs out – but the conspiracy that framed Sam goes deeper than either of them realize…
Authors
James Swallow
Author · 93 books
James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 bestselling author and scriptwriter, a BAFTA nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over sixty books, along with scripts for video games, comics, radio and television. DARK HORIZON, his new stand-alone thriller, is out now from Welbeck; OUTLAW, the 6th Marc Dane novel, is published by Bonnier, and the 4th book in the series - SHADOW - is available in the USA from Forge. His writing includes the Marc Dane action thrillers, the Sundowners steampunk Westerns and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Marvel, Tom Clancy, Warhammer 40000, Doctor Who, 24, Deus Ex, Stargate, 2000AD and many more. For information on new releases & more, sign up to the Readers’ Club here: www.bit.ly/JamesSwallow Visit James' website at http://www.jswallow.com/ for more, including ROUGH AIR, a free eBook novella in the Marc Dane series. You can also follow James on Twitter at @jmswallow, Bluesky at @jmswallow.bsky.social, Mastodon at @jmswallow@mstdn.social and jmswallow.tumblr.com at Tumblr.
