Sam Fisher- Killing Zhao

  He grabbed Zhao by the foot and dragged him farther out onto the platform. Using a pair of flexi-cuffs, he first secured Zhao's left arm to the railing, and then his right, which made a sickening grating sound as Fisher manipulated it. Zhao set his jaw and said through gritted teeth, "Go to hell."

  "Maybe someday," Fisher replied, "but not today."

  He leaned out over the railing and looked forward. Ahead he could see the locomotive was almost at the top of the grade. Fisher knelt down, reached between the platform joint, and grabbed the release lever. He jerked it upward. There was a steel clank-clank.

  "What are you doing?" Zhao said.

  Fisher didn't answer. He stepped to the other side of the platform and knelt down. He grabbed the second release lever.

  "Tell me what you're doing!" Zhao screamed.

  "To tell you the truth," said Fisher, "I don't know what they call it in China." He felt the locomotive lose momentum ever so slightly as it topped the grade, then lurch forward as it started down the opposite slope. "But in this country, it's called checkmate."

  He pulled the lever.
...

  AFTER Fisher had lifted the second release lever, the coupler had given another metallic clank-clank. Then the caboose and the third car had begun sliding away from Zhao's car. Fisher had timed it well. Now free of the third car and the caboose, and without a brakeman to control its descent, the locomotive rapidly picked up speed, hurtling down the slope. Spread-eagle on the platform of the second car, with his legs dangling in space and his wrists bound to the railing, Zhao never took his eyes off Fisher, even as Fisher's car slowed at the top of the slope, paused, then began rolling backward.
...

  A Blackhawk was dispatched down the track to look for Zhao's locomotive and the first two cars. They had jumped the track at the bottom of the slope and tumbled down the mountainside. Zhao's arms were found still bound to the platform's railing. The rest of him lay two hundred feet away, crushed under one of the locomotive's wheels.

- Checkmate, Chapter 60, Epilogue