Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Firewall is an eighth Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell novel written by James Swallow.[1]
Publisher's summary[]
SAM FISHER IS BACK…
The hero of the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell series Sam Fisher returns in the first of a new ongoing series of original novels!
The legendary Fourth Echelon covert operative Sam Fisher teams up with a new NSA recruit – his daughter – to save the world in a fight against a lethal digital threat, in this gripping new thriller from the renowned Splinter Cell videogame universe…
Veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher has a new mission recruiting and training the next generation of Splinter Cell operatives for the NSA’s covert action division, including his own daughter Sarah.
But when a lethal assassin from Fisher’s past returns from the dead on a mission of murder, father and daughter are thrust into a race against time as a sinister threat to global security is revealed.
A dangerous cyberwarfare technology known as Gordian Sword – capable of crashing airliners, destroying computer networks and plunging entire cities into darkness – is being auctioned off to whichever rogue state makes the highest bidder.
Sam and Sarah must call on their very singular set of skills to neutralize Gordian Sword and stop the weapon falling into the wrong hands – at any cost…
Characters[]
- Sam Fisher
- Sarah Fisher
- Regan Burns (flashback)
- Anna Grímsdóttir
- Andriy Kobin
- Charlie Cole
- Lea Kade
- Dima Aslanov
- Katya
- Samir Patel
- Brody Teague
Trivia[]
- Team Rainbow from Rainbow Six and the Strategic Homeland Division from The Division were mentioned in Chapter Five.
- Jace Skell from Ghost Recon was referenced in the book alongside Natalya Sokolova from The Division and a character called Diana from another presumably Tom Clancy-related work of fiction.
- In Chapter Fourteen, WatchGate from Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was mentioned alongside the Phoenix Group from Rainbow Six, Continuity JBA, Voron, Raven's Rock from Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, October Resistance from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown (PC version only), Red Sun Brigade from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Eagle Watch, the White Masks from Rainbow Six Siege, Kawakiri from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear and the Islamic Vanguard from the same game.
- James Swallow name drops the Splinter Cell Wiki, along with the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon Wikis in the acknowledgments part of the novel.
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