Sam Fisher- Elevator Shaft Kill

The taller of Aslanov’s mercs – the one with the buzz-cut – craned his neck out to take a look, ex­pect­ing to see the Splin­ter Cell agent’s bro­ken body ly­ing amid the wreck­age of the bro­ken el­e­va­tor car.

What he found was Fish­er half-hid­den in the shad­ows be­low him, bal­anc­ing on a tiny ledge, one hand grip­ping the edge of a bent pan­el and the oth­er hold­ing the wick­ed curve of a “Pan­ther Claw” karambit knife.

His mus­cles burn­ing, his jaw locked hard, Fish­er dug deep for his re­solve, chan­nel­ing a dec­ades-old en­mi­ty for the man he had nev­er been able to kill into his will to sur­vive.

With quick slic­ing mo­tions, Fish­er slashed deep into the calf mus­cles and sin­ews of the man stand­ing over him, then hooked the blade in and pulled hard. The mer­ce­nary screamed as he toppled for­ward, tum­bling over Fish­er’s head and down to the bot­tom of the met­al shaft.

- Firewall, Chapter 24