Tom Clancy's EndWar: The Hunted is the sequel to Tom Clancy's EndWar

Tom Clancy's EndWar (novel)

Tom Clancy's EndWar is the first novel in the Tom Clancy's EndWar series. It was written under the pseudonym David Michaels and released on February 4, 2008 by Berkley Books. It is based on the video game series of the same name that was published by Ubisoft and released for the Nintendo DS,...

, a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 featuring a fictional account of World War III

World War III

World War III denotes a successor to World War II that would be on a global scale, with common speculation that it would be likely nuclear and devastating in nature....

 and based on a video game

Tom Clancy's EndWar

Tom Clancy's EndWar is a real-time tactics game designed by Ubisoft Shanghai for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms. The Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable versions feature turn-based tactics instead of the real-time tactics of their console counterparts...

 published by Ubisoft

Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

. Written under the pseudonym David Michaels

David Michaels

David Michaels is a pseudonym for the authors of novels in the Splinter Cell, EndWar, H.A.W.X , and Ghost Recon series, all of which were created by Ubisoft Entertainment and developed under Ubisoft's Tom Clancy license...

 it was released on February 1st, 2011 by Berkley Books

Berkley Books

Berkley Books is an imprint of Penguin Group that began as an independent company in 1955. It was established by Charles Byrne and Frederic Klein, who were working for Avon and formed "Chic News Company". They renamed it Berkley Publishing Co. in 1955. They soon found a niche in science fiction...

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Back Cover Synopsis

"After a devastating nuclear exchange in the Middle East, America

United States

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 and Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 stand on opposite sides in the quest to control the world's natural resources.

U.S. Special Forces

United States Special Operations Forces

United States Special Operations Forces under United States Special Operations Command are active and reserve component forces of U.S. Military...

Captain Alexander Brent and his Ghost Recon team have been sent to capture the Snow Maiden, aka Viktoria Antsyforov, a former Russian Intelligence colonel and currently an operative of a secret group dedicated to world domination. It seems like a simple enough task for Brent and his team,but what they don't know is that the Snow Maiden has already been marked for termination by a terrorist faction. And when the two teams collide, it will be impossible to tell who is on which side-or if anyone will survive..."