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Loading... Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Falloutby David Michaels, David Michaels
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Pretty disappointed. The new ghost writer doesn't understand the protagonist and never bothers to develop the villain as a character. The first 2 novels make for good junkfood reading, not this one ( ) Fallout is an improvement on "David Michaels"'s previous effort, Checkmate. While not quite up to par with the first two Splinter Cell novels by Raymond Benson, Fallout is still an enjoyable read. Unlike in Checkmate, the stakes as the book begin are relatively low; only as Sam Fisher digs deeper into a suspicious death is the real threat revealed. At the same time, the final stakes are higher than they've been before; where earlier Splinter Cell tales had Sam chasing after "mere" weapons of mass destruction, the biological weapon herein threatens not people, but their way of life. If the book suffers from anything, it's that it tries to set the stakes too high. Too many people know about the Splinter Cells, about Sam, and about the events that are happening. The operations are hardly "covert" anymore. (Checkmate wasn't much better in this regard.) Still, despite Sam's ventures away from the shadows and into the limelight, Fallout was a fun read. If Checkmate didn't put you off the series—or maybe even if it did—I'd recommend it. no reviews | add a review
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Third Echelon special operative Sam Fisher investigates the death of a former Justice Department investigator by radiation poisoning, which leads him to a radical Islamic leader in Kytgyzstan who will do anything to destroy the technological world. No library descriptions found. |
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