Tell us a little about Sam’s latest outing in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Fall out.

After the death of a "family friend", Fisher sets out to find the killers, but instead finds himself embroiled in a madman's plot to tip the world on its head. A clue: it involves the world's most fought-over commodity.


What kind of locations are we looking at?

A lot of globe-trotting. The Labrador Sea, North Korea, Africa, Central Asia, Canada....


Any new characters?

A few, but to say too much might ruin the fun of discovery for the reader. All of the major characters are back, of course: Grimsdottir, Lambert, Redding, and Bird and Sandy, Fisher's Osprey pilots.

Ubisoft has recently made a change to the style of the Splinter Cell game play, adding action to the mix. Do you intend to follow in Ubi’s foot steps with the new added action or will Sam be sticking to the shadows.

While there are no guarantees, I don't see the style of the books changing. Fisher is still a man of the shadows, and "no footprints" is still his stock-in-trade. There's a lot of action, of course, but Fisher does his best to get in, do the job, and get out before the bad guys know he's been there. It's what he's best at.