Tom Clancy, David Michaels
EndWar
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author would like to thank the following individuals whose assistance and support made this book possible:
Mr. Tom Colgan
Mr. Chris George
Ms. Sandra Harding
Chief Warrant Officer James Ide, USN (Ret.)
Major Mark Aitken, U.S. Army
Master Sergeant Randy McElwee, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Major William R. Reeves, U.S. Army
Major Craig Walker, USAF
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EPIGRAPH
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
JOINT STRIKE FORCE (JSF) LEADERSHIP — U.S.
David Becerra, President (“American Eagle”)
Roberta Santiago, National Security Advisor
Mark Hellenberg, White House Chief of Staff
General Laura Kennedy, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
General Rudolph McDaniel, Vice Chairman of the JCS
Major Alice Dennison, USMC, JSF Tactical Operations Specialist (“Hammer”)
Charles Shakura (lead interrogator for JSF)
JOINT STRIKE FORCE, ODA SPECIAL FORCES
Team Sergeant Nathan Vatz (“Vortex”; “Bali”)
Captain Tom Gerard, Detachment Commander
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Douglas Barnes, Assistant Detachment Commander
Sergeant Zack Murrow, Weapons Sergeant (“Volcano”)
Captain Mike Godfrey, Detachment Commander (ODA 888, “Berserker Six”)
Captain Manny Rodriguez, Detachment Commander (ODA 897, “Zodiac Six”)
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Samson, Assistant Detachment Commander (ODA 888, “Black Bear”)
Sergeant Jac Sasaki, Senior Medic (ODA 888, “Band-Aid”)
Staff Sergeant Paul Dresden, Assistant Medic (ODA 888, “Beethoven”)
JOINT STRIKE FORCE, MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
Colonel Stack, Company Commander
Staff Sergeant Raymond McAllen, Force Recon Team Leader (“Outlaw One”)
Sergeant Terry Jones, Assistant Team Leader (“Outlaw Two”)
Corporal Palladino, team scout/sniper (“Outlaw Three”)
Corporal Szymanski, team scout (“Outlaw Four”)
Lance Corporal Friskis, radio operator (“Outlaw Five”)
Navy Corpsman Gutierrez, medic (“Outlaw Six”)
Sergeant Scott Rule, New Assistant Team Leader (“Outlaw Two”)
F-35 DETACHMENT, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
Major Stephanie Halverson, USAF (“Siren”)
Captain Jake Boyd, USAF (“Ghost Hawk”)
Captain Lisa Johansson, USAF (“Sapphire”)
STRYKER BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM
Captain Chuck Welch, Company Commander
Staff Sergeant Marc Rakken (“Sparta Six”)
Sergeant Timothy Appleman, Vehicle Commander
Private First Class Penny Hassa, Vehicle Driver
USS FLORIDA SSN-805
Commander Jonathan Andreas
“Jack” (Operations Officer)
Senior Chief Radioman Sheldon
Chief Electronic Technician Burgess
“Dan” (Communications Officer)
JSF NAVY HIGH COMMAND, HONOLULU
Admiral Donald Stanton, Commander, Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT)
Admiral Charles Harrison, Commander, Submarines, Pacific
“Smitty” USS Florida’s Submarine Squadron Commander
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Vsevolod Vsevolodovich Kapalkin, President
General Sergei Izotov, Director of the Glavnoje
Razvedyvatel ’noje Upravlenije (GRU)
Colonel Pavel Doletskaya (GRU)
Major Alexei Noskov, Tactical Operations Officer (“Werewolf”)
Colonel Viktoria Antsyforov (GRU)
Commander Ivan Golova, commander of the Ulyanovsk
Captain Pravota, Ka-29 chopper pilot
Captain Second Rank Mikhail Anatolyevich Kolosov, commander of the Romanov
Alexi Vasiliev, aka William Bullard, Russian mole
EUROPEAN FEDERATION
President Nathalie Perreau
General Amadou Bankolé, EF Enforcers Corps
Capitaine Ilaria Cimino, EFEC Executive Officer
CANADA
Robert Emerson, Prime Minister
“Khaki,” chopper pilot and ex-Canadian Special Forces
TERRORIST
Green Vox (symbolic head of the Green Brigade Transnational)
MAPS
ONE
“He’s coming around! Everybody get—”
Team Sergeant Nathan Vatz never finished his sentence. The Russian T-100 main battle tank on the opposite end of the intersection finished it for him.
Vatz slammed onto his gut, sliding across the rain-slick pavement as the office building fifty meters ahead exploded with a thunderous boom.
Shards of concrete, glass, and mangled metal arced into the cold night and fell in a hailstorm on the blackened remains of the HMMWVs and a pair of eight-wheeled Stryker infantry combat vehicles, behind which Vatz’s special forces team had taken cover. A black rose of smoke backlit by fire bloomed across the intersection, driven by a wind thick with the stench of cordite.
With a sudden lurch, the fifty-ton tank rumbled closer, its 152mm smoothbore main gun swiveling menacingly, tracks grinding over the bodies of the rifle squad — the tank’s first victims — who’d been hit as they’d dismounted from one of the Strykers.
Vatz wiped sweat from his eyes, cleared his throat, and spoke into the tiny voice-activated boom mike at his lips: “Victor Six, this is Vortex, over?”