In response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats
to the United States the National Security Agency has ushered forth the new dawn of
intelligence-gathering techniques. The top-secret initiative is dubbed Third Echelon. Its
existence denied by the U.S. government Third Echelon deploys a lone field operative. He is
sharp nearly invisible and deadly. And he has the right to spy steal destroy and
assassinate to protect American freedoms. His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Cell®.
