In the year 2050, eighty-year-old deputy FBI director Samuel Lord and his space-based "Zero-G" men must stop the Chinese from using a weapon that, unknown to them, could destroy Earth.

"Veteran Fourth Echelon agent Sam Fisher has a new mission recruiting and training the next generation of Splinter Cell operatives for the NSA's covert action division, including his daughter Sarah. But when a lethal assassin from Fisher's past returns from the dead on a mission of murder, father and daughter are thrust into a race against time as a sinister threat to global security is revealed. A dangerous cyberwarfare technology known as Gordian...