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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780425204221
ISBN number: 0425204227
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: November 01, 2005
Publishing house: Berkley
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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...
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The very first Splinter Cell book was decent enough for me to give this second one a shot. I doubt I'll read any more, however. I found Operation Barracuda pretty unengaging. There were too many convenient developments at key moments and predictable plot lines. It was an improvement that this book remained almost totally in the very first person, where the very first book bounce back and forth between very first and third. That wasn't enough to keep me enthused about reading it, though. Even for being just a commute read this book didn't do it for me.
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Sam Fisher is a modern spy - with unique, state-of-the-art technology planted in his body - and an old-school outlook on getting down-and-dirty when a kick to the jaw is needed.
He is a member of an elite, covert team - Third Echelon - which is under attack from a variety of sources; a politician who seeks drastic funding cuts, terrorist organizations and several individuals who willingly sell-out the security of this nation.
In this second novel of an ongoing series, author David Michaels has a lot of issues on the plate, but delivers a luke-warm adventure due to reheating old cliches within this genre.
From crazy automobile chases, secret escape routes for the bad guys and Fisher balancing revenge with his training as an elite covert spy, the plot stalls at critical junctures where creativity is most crucial. Perhaps more reliance on the Fisher character in Ubisoft's outstanding game would have bolstered the action.
Michaels has a quality main character and a great concept, but he must write with only a slight nod to the past.
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I am a big fan of Splinter Cell. I have all the xbox games, so I decided to buy the books to see if there were any differences. I think I love the book just as much as I do the games.
So if you are a Splinter Cell fan, I highly recommend reading the books too. They will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page.
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If you like TC novels then this is a great book to have.
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I have played all of the Splinter Cell video games and I enjoy the series very much. I bought the third book, Checkmate, in an airport with fairly low expectations. It was well written enough, particularly because I like the genre and the Sam Fisher character. I read the reviews for the very first two books and I ignored the bad ones. I cannot believe that these books made it to print. The writing appears to have been done by a high school student or a non-native english speaker. There obviously was no editor assigned to the project. I lost count of the number of times words were used incorrectly or gratuitously.(My favorite, is when a "hidden surveillance team" was inserted -- as opposed to what, a "visible" surveillance team?) Worst of all, in these books Sam Fisher is a total moron. I won't put spoilers in here, but there are instances where someone is very obviously bad or try to kill Sam and after it would be paintfully obvious to anyone, he would say "I'm beginning to get the feeling that they are aiming for me" or "I'm starting to think this guy might be not be on our side". At the end of one of the books, he does something so stupid and amateurish that you won't believe it. And, if only a handful of people know about Third Echelon, why do I lose count of the number of people who know? Perhaps it is my ignorance, but do covert operatives take Army flights out of Dulles? Wouldn't he know he needed the acess code in the many hours before he got to the facility he was infilitrating? If the facility was abandoned, why would they send him and not the FBI? These books have more holes than swiss cheese. My wife couldn't believe that insisted on finishing the books, but I was invested and wanted to know the resolution. Perhaps the practice of writing made the third one better or maybe they found an editor. But owners of the very first two books should be issued a refund.
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