Sam Fisher- Cottonball Ammo

  "OKAY, one more item," Redding said. "An add-on to the SC-20. Again, I'll spare you the technical stuff. We've nicknamed it Cottonball." He handed Fisher two items: what looked like a standard shotgun shell, and a spiked soft rubber ball roughly the size of marble. "The basic firing mechanism is the same as the sticky shocker and ring airfoil, but with a big difference. Once it's out of the barrel, the sabot breakes away, leaving only the Cottonball. When it strikes a hard object, an inner pod of aerosol tranquilizer is released. The cloud radius is three feet. Anyone inside that will be unconscious in three or four seconds."

  "Impressive. Duration?"

  "For a hundred-eighty-pound man, a waist-up strike will give you about twenty minutes."

  "Accuracy?"

  "Plus or minus six inches over fifty feet."

- Checkmate, Chapter 10