Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell #3: Checkmate

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Do u hav to read the others to understand this one?

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Best book in the series so far!

This book was by far the best book in the series so far. Written by a different author under the same pseudonym, delivers a more realistic, action packed, and detailed story than the previous books. I felt as though Sam Fisher was the bad-a that he's supposed to be than the last books. I read this book in 2 days because I could't put it down.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Great book!

This one was my favorite!

Firepelt

Im here.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

A good continuation

A very good third installment in the series. The only thing i didnt like was that the Fisher parts of he novel are no longer in first person; that was what made his character that much more close to the reader

Explosive!

Read Tom Clancys Splinter Cell!
It is Explosive!

No escaping Third Echelon!!!

Wherever the bad guys may be hiding, anywhere in the world, Third Echelon will hunt them down. From the U.S., to some remote island, and to Asia. There is nowhere they can't go, and nowhere they can't send Sam Fisher. Even when the odds are stacked against him, there is no length that Sam will not go to get the job done.

Great read for the leisure reader.

Like the rest of Tom Clancy's series, this is a great book to pass some time. Nothing like Tom Clancy's writing, so story doesn't draw itself out too long. It's a quick read with plenty of action and suspenseful events.

CHECKMATE

I am going to say a few choice words about this book. Love it, wish I had more Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Series books to add to my collection. I dub myself illiterate but how can I say that when I love reading. (I hate English Class.) I recommend this to the people with great love for action books especially with Sam Fisher.

Good book but the fisrt two was really better

Mr. David Michaels listen to me forget the review i made for the first splinter cell book you wrote. the first one and the second one was a masterpiece. Dont get me wrong checkmate is a good book but it falls really short to what you came up with the first 2 books you wrote. go back and write the way you wrote the first 2 books you wrote please.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Serious case of 'Could've been better'

It was totally obvious within the first page that the style of writing had changed. Easy to follow, yes. But every scenerio was a duplicate of the other aside from the location. Also, it was written in third-person rather than Sam Fisher telling the reader his story. With a little luck the writer of the next in the series will read these reviews and work on the style of writing.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Obviously a different writer!

Well, it is obvious that a different writer took on this book. It was a good plot and action, but the style of narration was so different that it seemed like the writer didn¿t even know what the other two books, or character was about. The grammatical errors in this book was so distracting that it was pain full to read. I hope the next one is better.

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Better and worse

I am a huge fan of splinter cell and i have been since the games came out. my thoughts on checkmate were that it had a quite amazingly plot and the action beat the other two books by miles. however the gramatical errors made it a somewhat difficult read at times. i like the third person but i wouldn't mind figuring out more of whats going on in Fishers head. all and all good job i can't wait for fall out.

Different Writing

This book was very good. It's basically a non-stop action covert operation and this is the reason why it kept me wanting to read more. I miss the first-person writing and I also miss the beginning action introduction when he says, 'My name is Sam Fisher. And I am a Splinter Cell.' That was missed in this book, but I can't wait for the 4th novel to come out in December. Keep writing these books please!

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

One of the best....

Splinter Cell: Checkmate has mangaged to stay just as good as the first two. Even with a new author and the 'third-person view', it kept me just as involved in the storyline as the others. (However, the beginning started off okay but became tremendously better as it went on.) This is a must-buy whether you've read the other books in the series or not!

A reviewer

The book has a good plot and action, but I did not like how it was written in third person. It seemed to be dialog, he goes on a mission, finds things, more dialog, another mission, kill some people, dialog, blah blah blah. I wish Raymond Benson, the writer of the first two, would return for the others. Let us all home that the new one, supposedly coming out this November, is better.

THIRD PERSON SOOO BAD

i got to say this book disappointed me, it should been better. Why did he had to change it to third person, ruin all the fun, person point of view is alway better. so horrible

Not as good as the first two

the book it self was o.k. but the third person point of view suck, they should of left it as it was in the first two which were how this one should of been so if there is a fourth book to follow and future ones please go back to the original formate as having first person narrations.

Far beyond the first two

First, like everyone else in the world, i love the new third person view of Fisher. And really, did Micheals go a writing class or something, because everything is written so much better, from dialogue,, to action, to the realization that you don't need swears every line to keep you interested. The only reason that i gave this a four is that there were several gramatical errors, but it isn't enough to take away from the experience.

Not what I expected

I had finished the splinter cell book and I was a little disappointed. I felt the author rushed the book and did not take his time to write it. I feel that he needed to put more action in and really get the reader into the book.