Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda - Characters

Characters

• Sam Fisher

A Splinter Cell operative and main protagonist of the story. A professional Third Echelon operative, trained in all manner of covert activities, ranging from espionage to assassination.

• Irving Lambert

Head of Third Echelon and Fisher's handler.

• Carly St. John

A technical analyst for Third Echelon, she is very skilled in her work. She is later killed by Mike Wu (aka Mike Chan) because she was about to uncover the source of the information leak at Third Echelon.

• Anna Grimsdottir

Technical Director for Third Echelon, she returns from psych leave when Carly St. John is killed.

• Frances Coen

The first Field Runner for the program in Third Echelon. She is responsible for handling weapons and transportation for a Splinter Cell. Fisher is against the Field Runner program.

• Andrei Zdrok

An international arms dealer and head of the shadowy organization known as The Shop. He was receiving information about Fisher's mission and objectives from an ex-CIA operative named Mason Hendricks, who he nicknamed The Benefactor. Zdrok is captured by the Lucky Dragons at Tun's headquarters in Fuzhou. Fisher punches Zdrok in the face with brass knuckles, breaking his facial bone plate. Zdrok later dies in the hospital.

• Mason Hendricks

A veteran CIA operative who resided in Hong Kong for a long time, Hendricks assisted Fisher in some operations there. He was presumed dead when his home was burned down by triads. Hendricks resurfaced later and was seen with Zdrok, revealing his treachery. He was gunned down in Tun's headquarters either by Ming or his Triads.

• Yvan Putnik

A highly skilled Russian Mafia hitman working for The Shop. He attempts to kill Sam multiple times. When Sam is walking with Katia Loenstern, a stray bullet from Putnik hits her and kills her. Sam is enraged and eventually kills Putnik at Tun's headquarters.

• Anton Antipov

Antipov is Zdrok's right hand man in The Shop. It is revealed that he is an ex-KGB colonel and has a reputation for being a sadist. He is eventually found and interrogated by Fisher, who executes him with a bullet to the head.

• Oskar Herzog

An ex-judge from East Germany and a member of Zdrok's committee. Herzog is later killed either by Ming or his Triads in the attack on Tun's headquarters.

• Stefan Prokofiev

A Russian army general and member of Zdrok's committee. His area of operations is Russia. Fisher breaks into his house in Moscow to retrieve blueprints from a safe, but is found by Prokofiev's wife. He convinces her that her husband is cheating on her by showing her pictures of Prokofiev going out with a model in Ukraine. Enraged, his wife shoots him when he arrives home, severing his spine and shooting him in the head. Amazingly, he survives, but is paralyzed for life.

• Jon Ming

Head of the triad called the Lucky Dragons, Ming lured Jeinsen into giving him the guidance system to a nuclear warhead. Ming was planning to sell it to The Shop, but decided against it when he learned Zdrok had sold the MRUUV he had acquired from Jeinsen to General Lan Tun, a hard-liner Communist in the Chinese army. Ming and the other Triads all hated Communism and Tun. Fisher allies with Ming and when Fisher is captured in Tun's headquarters, Ming breaks him out. Unfortunately, Tun had already left the base. Ming's whereabouts are unknown at the end of the book.

• Gregory Jeinsen

A scientist who defected from East Germany in 1971 and was smuggled out in a laundry car. Jeinsen took up a job developing weapons for the United States but, unsatisfied with his pay, defects to China. A Mr. Wong who is really Jon Ming, tells him to deliver the guidance system to a nuclear warhead to Hong Kong. Jeinsen is killed so that Ming can erase the link between him and Jeinsen.

• Lan Tun

A hard-liner communist in the Chinese army. He hatches a plan to invade Taiwan, which he believes is rightfully China's and plans to use a nuclear weapon (purchased from The Shop) planted in the ocean near Santa Monica to extort the United States into not retaliating. Tun's plan is later foiled when Fisher hacks into the warhead and sends it out to sea. Tun's is driven out of Taiwan and his ship is destroyed, with Tun and many sailors aboard.

• Mike Wu

Older brother of Eddie Wu and member of the Lucky Dragons posing as a Third Echelon technical analyst. He kills Carly St. John as she is about to discover his true identity. He takes off on a long road trip and ends up killing a U.S policeman who tried to pull him over for a stolen vehicle check. He is later captured at his brother's apartment. He had wanted to sell the MRUUV to Zdrok because Ming wouldn't do so.

• Eddie Wu

Member of the Lucky Dragons and younger brother to Mike Wu. He and his brother planned to sell the MRUUV to Zdrok after Ming refused to do so. He is captured at Tun's headquarters.

• Katia Loenstern

Sam's Krav Maga instructor and girlfriend. She is later accidentally killed by Yvan Putnik when the latter attempted to assassinate Sam Fisher.

• Sergeant Kim Lee Wei

A Chinese Hong Kong police sergeant patrolling the harbor area. He once solved many minor crime problems but for the first time he experiences his first murder case when he discovers Jeinsen's body.

• Jimmy

Sergeant Wei's fisherman acquaintance. He complains about the fish not being caught inadvertently leading Wei to discover the fish are being distracted by Jeinsen's floating corpse.

• Harry Dagger

A minor ally of Fisher, he runs a bookshop.