David Michaels

David Michaels is the pen name of Grant Blackwood, an American thriller writer and ghostwriter from Austin, Minnesota who served in the United States Navy. Under the Michaels name he wrote the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell books, which follow spy Sam Fisher, along with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, and Splinter Cell Checkmate, in which Fisher must stop a freighter carrying radioactive material off the U.S. coast. Blackwood also wrote the Briggs Tanner series.