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“Where is she?”

“Black Arrow. Who’s their D.C. handler?”

Sam’s blood iced. Grim . His former colleague. The one person he’d trusted.

One match in the dark. That’s all it took to burn a conspiracy down. Tom Clancys Splinter Cell Conviction

The broker’s muffled voice came through Sam’s fingers. “G-grimsdottir. Anna Grimsdottir. Third Echelon. She’s gone rogue—Reed forced her to fake Sarah’s death file.”

He left them alive. Barely.

Now the lie had a name: Black Arrow . A private military corp running off-the-books assassinations. And the man who could lead Sam to Reed was inside this penthouse. Lucius Galliard. Former CIA, now an information broker who thought he was untouchable. “Where is she

“You’re going to nod once if you want to keep your tongue,” Sam whispered.

He cuffed Galliard to the chair, took the man’s phone, and slipped out the same way he came—through the dark, silent as a spent round.

Outside, rain began to fall. Sam pulled up a photo on the stolen phone: Sarah’s face, recent, smiling outside a coffee shop in Prague. Alive. One match in the dark

Sam checked his SC—no pistol. No sticky shockers. Just his bare hands, a pair of flex-cuffs, and the fuse of cold rage he kept banked behind his ribs.

He grabbed a heavy glass ashtray from a side table. Tossed it to the far end of the room. It shattered. The guards turned, raised weapons. Sam moved in the opposite direction— toward Galliard —as the men fanned out toward the noise.

Sam used the sound of a distant helicopter to mask his footfalls. He slid behind a marble pillar. The Sonar Goggles were offline—too much risk of the glow giving him away. Instead, he counted heartbeats. His own. Theirs.

He crushed the phone in his fist and melted into the alley.

Then a ghost flickered across a grainy security feed in Valletta, Malta. Sarah. Alive. And Third Echelon’s new director, Tom Reed, had lied to him.