A tie-in novel published to coincide with the much-anticipated release of the new Splinter Cell game

The return of agent Sam Fisher, as Commander of a new elite Black Ops team named ‘Fourth Echelon’, reporting directly to the President.

His primary mission- to shutdown the rogue elements of his former ‘Third Echelon’ team, now conducting a deadly, escalating countdown of terrorist attacks, called Blacklist. Sam and his team must hunt down these terrorists by any means necessary, and stop the Blacklist countdown - before it reaches zero.