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Tom Clancy's Endwar #3

by Peter Telep, Tom Clancy

Na een vernietigende nucleaire confrontatie in het Midden-Oosten, staan Amerika en Rusland lijnrecht tegenover elkaar in hun honger naar werelddominantie.

Terwijl JFS-piloot majoor Stephanie Halverson op een verkenningsexpeditie in Rusland een revolutionair nieuw radarsysteem test, wordt ze uit de lucht geschoten.
In de jungle van Ecuador is de keiharde marinier Mikhail “Lex” Alexandrov een gezochte terrorist op het spoor als hij plotseling een internationale samenzwering ontdekt die hem en zijn team midden in de strijd werpt.
Op een eiland voor de kust van Japan, wordt een Russische ex-spion door haar oude kameraden opgejaagd. Haar enige hoop op overleven is overlopen naar het Westen.

Zo raakt ieder van hen betrokken bij het complot van een groepering die niet verslagen blijkt, maar met dodelijke kracht weer toeslaat.

Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Military Fiction, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure

313 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 3, 2013

About the author

Peter Telep is the author of more than fifty novels. His collaboration with Tom Clancy, Against All Enemies, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Additionally, he has written many bestselling novels based on Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, Endwar, and Splinter Cell video game series.

He is a produced film and television writer and has worked alongside professionals throughout the video game industry. The Doc Harrison series marks his return to fantasy and science fiction where he began his career.

Find him on Facebook, Twitter (@petertelep), and email: peter@docharrisonbooks.com. He always loves to hear from his readers!


Bonus info:

Writing as Ben Weaver: Brothers in Arms, Rebels in Arms, Patriots in Arms

Writing as P.W. Storm: The Force 5 Recon Series and The Mercenaries Series

Writing as Pete Callahan: Armored Corps, Attack by Fire, Engage and Destroy

Writing as David Michaels: Endwar, Endwar: The Hunted, Ghost Recon, Ghost Recon: Combat Ops, Splinter Cell: Endgame

Writing as Richard Michaels: The Fall of Eden (Trade Paperback)

Reviews

[Chris The Lizard from Planet X · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tom Clancy's EndWar: The Missing By Peter Telep, is a video tie-in novel based on Ubisoft's Tom Clancy’s RTS spin off game “Tom Clancy’s Endwar.”

As the global World War III conflict between the Russian Federation, the United States, and the United European Union continues to rage on across the globe.

Former Russian GRU spy turned mercenary the “Snow Maiden” aka Viktoria Antsyforov is now the world most wanted terrorist. When she learns the shadowy organization called the Ganjin she’s been working for has larger goals for world domination. She’s betrays them, and goes on the run hoping to defect to the west. In Russia JSF Fighter Pilot Major Stephenie Halverson is shot down, and captured by a cell of Chechen terrorists that are some how connected to a larger shadowy organization. While on a mission to hunt down the last of the Green Vox terrorists US Marine Raider Captain Mikhail “Lex” Alexandrov stubbles upon a biochip that links it to an international conspiracy that will launch him and his Marine Raiders on an important mission.

Each of their fates are interwoven as what each one knows could be the key to stoping the secret shadowy organization known as the Committee Of Five from reaching its end goal of of total world domination.

Unlike the previous book that mainly followed two characters. The Missing follows a cast of new and old returning characters. The book does a decent job of giving the characters background. Similar background stories cover minor side and returning characters. Like the mysterious Committee Of Five Leader Christopher Theron or sleeper cell agent Major Demison. These pages of information provide human elements to the characters however they don't evoke much of any emotion towards the characters. Regardless it is a nice touch and than many similar books provide as background including Missing predecessor.

One huge flaw to “The Missing” is that it completely departs from how the original EndWar book was focused. The first title in the series focused on much larger scale aspects of the WW3 universe with scenes such as large land battles, naval warfare, and the like spanning across much of the global conflict. The Missing scales it down to only focusing on the story of Captain Alexandrov and his Marine Raider Team, Major Halverson, and The Snow Maiden as their various storylines converge.

This title is covering details of small squad sized engagements and spy chases versus enormous battles seen in the original first book as well as the EndWar video game. The Missing focus seems reminiscent of similar series such Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon or Splinter Cell which is also based on video games and tends to focus on smaller special operations of elite soldiers and covert agents.

The book's plot lines while not revolutionary by any means are also not just carbon copies of cliche story structure. The book ranges from the rainforests of Ecuador to a battle through mountains of Bulgaria and so on and so forth. Essentially it is a mish mosh of battles including victories and defeats all the way up to a final giant climax battle which while still focusing on the smaller squad elements does manage to allude to the big picture war scenario as Russian, European, and American conventional forces duke it out around the protagonists. Another thing this book does well is the ending. Unlike many war based books this does not end with the America and it’s allies having total victory however the ending isn't bad either It is unconventional which is a nice twist for a book of this genre.

Overall, EndWar: The Missing is by no means a spectacular or amazing title worthy of praise. However it is a fast paced action packed military techno adventure that is definitely worthy of the relatively small amount of time one could complete it in. For Tom Clancy fans it may prove a bit irritating with the shift in focus but nonetheless proves itself an entertaining and thrilling techno thriller.

[Mark Kloha · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are three books in the series. I have never played the video games. I didn't read the first book - I bought EndWar The Hunted and EndWar The Missing thinking that these were the first two books. I just read the last two books in the series. I'm not going back to read the first book. This is a pretty bad series.

If you want a series where the 'bad guy' constantly wins and gets away, then Tom Clancy's EndWar series is for you. I hated this series. The series is disconnected with the only common element being the 'bad guy'. The last book, EndWar The Missing was really disconnected. It was more like a series of six short stories barely linked together. It was really bad.

[Stephen McNett · Rating 2 out of 5]

If I could give this a 1.5 I would. There was hardly a conclusion to the saga. It all wrapped up so quickly in the last 15-20pgs. So Theron was this mastermind and financial backbone to this massive war. Created mind controlling technology, but his capture was literally 1.5pg, Voeckler’s character growth was good, but you had to infer a decent amount. Him capturing Theron should’ve been 1-3 chapters at least.
If they were going to kill Halverson, why not make it in the blaze of glory she set out when kamikaze the Wraith?
There was hardly any connection to previous books and heroes. What was the point of book 2 and the new ruler of India when he was hardly linked in this book? McAllen was brought back and that was cool for the 30pgs he was in.
Alice Dennison was a bad ass in book 1 but then was made to be this sex hungry turncoat (yes bc of the chip).


Not a good book to end the trilogy that started out so good.

[SpiceRunner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great way to wrap up the series... Will they make a fourth Amway!?!

[Jason Gil · Rating 3 out of 5]

The finale to the EndWar series is the longest (but not by much), and arguably the weakest.
The book concludes the tales of a number of different figures that have appeared in the previous books, and serves as the end of the series which was sort of a "prelude to an EndWar" vs. a series about an "EndWar" in itself.

Some strengths about the book:
-Meaningful ending (and not just a cliff-hanger ending like the previous 2 books).
-The "big battle" of this book lasts a considerable duration and focuses on the perspectives of one group, versus in EndWar 1 where a battle could be told from the perspectives of many. (while that isn't a bad thing necessarily, EndWar 1 didn't have those sports written all that well.)
-Not as much romantic elements as the first two books, but it's still sprinkled in there.
-The snow maiden has an enjoyable change of character, if only for the briefest of moments.

Weaknesses:
-Like the first book, there's a lot of technical jargon. This was a little better in the second book, but this one just seems to have reverted to that overload.
-The protagonist of this one just seems to not have as much character as the protagonist from the previous book, Brent.
-There are a lot of little moments that the protagonist engages in that make it seem like he's being fleshed out as a character, but it just seems forced. There really was no "oomph" as was in Brent's case, losing his job.
-Besides the snow maiden and Halverson, don't expect to look for much character depth here.

All in all, this was the first "series" of books I read vs standalone, and I would say I enjoyed it. Each book is around 400 pages, and each of them can be read easily in a weekend or during breaks. If you want to talk further about this series of books, message me on goodreads as I would like to have fellow conversation about the series.

-Jason

[Major Doug · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good combo of Splinter Cell/Marine Raiders/Ghost Recon; wouldn't read another one though.

[Huub · Rating 1 out of 5]

High tech oorlogvoering met ontzettend platte karakters en onwaarschijnlijk plot. Niet te vergelijken met de 'echte' Clancy zoals Hunt for the Red October en Red Storm Rising.

[Rebekah · Rating 2 out of 5]

While I did enjoy the first two books from this series, I found that Endwar: The Missing was really lacking from the first two. I took into account that these books are written from different authors, it still missed the bridging from the other two and that it felt like the book was slapped together.

While I enjoy different POVs, it felt like there were too many and that for the last half of the book it was very disorganized. It felt rushed, especially during the rescue operation for the hostage Ragland. I also hate the way it ended. It passed the time and I'm sorta glad I did read it, but it had more potential than what was the final product.

[Nick · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ehhh....I don't know what to say really. This is probably the worst of the three EndWar books and honestly, hopefully the last. The action and battle scenes were fun to read but otherwise the story was confusing, lacked detail, and the ending was especially lame. The trilogy as a whole was a fun quick read, but just don't expect an epic story.

[Amy Dresser Held · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book! Lots of thrills and international intrigue.

Fascinating futuristic intertwining plots and interesting complex characters. Recommend to anyone into Clancy and Ludlum style spy and military thrillers.

[Bill Baker · Rating 4 out of 5]

the missing

Another rollicking tale from Clancy archives. Starting elements were startling, with Russia invading Canada, a NATO country. Good stories about US special ops guys, doing impossible tasks almost daily. Enjoyable read, but will need to reread to comprehend everything.

[Lloyd W. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good start. Could have added more to the end area of the mission but overall good book. :)

[Bob · Rating 2 out of 5]

It just didnt hold my interest and i found it hard to follow at times. Too many characters to remember as they jumped around as the story came to a predictable ending

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bit difficult to get in to, but it doesnt disappoint

[Larry Corn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. I really liked this story. The ending surprised me. The action sequences

we're well done, and engrossing. Peter Telep is an engaging and believable author. I feel that he is a n excellent addition to Tom Clancy.

[Zach Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The USA and Russia want the world’s resources, for themselves, to become even a greater power then they already are. Pilot Stephanie Halverson tests a world changing device, that basically acts a cloak to radar devices, that is until the Russians shot her down. Later on Stephanie becomes a test pilot for a new aircraft called the Wraith. A Russian American Team, Lex and his team were tracking down a terrorist capable of many things, and a part of a old Russian army group called the Spetsnaz. Eventually Lex and his team dig up enough information about The terrorist and Russia they ran into a worldwide conspiracy theory that will lead into a deadly battle, more than they ever thought to be faced.

[J. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Entertaining enough for a time-killer but certainly not gripping or realistic. Don't know if this was intentional, but it does give something of a sense of how ridiculous and arbitrary killing in combat or war is... that the dead could have been your neighbor, could have been a good person, could have been your ally, or are often just in the wrong place at the wrong time or trying to make ends meet, but some power structure tells you that the uniform isn't right and now you will never know for sure. If you don't like reading about the specifications of weapons or gadgets or military vehicles then you won't enjoy this book (one of the more interesting parts to me).

[Yasser Maniram · Rating 4 out of 5]

Preface: I read this book as a standalone book without researching the prior 2.

With that said, I quickly caught on to the global story-arch. The dialogue and writing style in general is that of a thriller. There are excellent plot twists.

Pros: Easy to jump into. Great attention to detail. Loose ends tied up. Multiple things happening in the story world so there are perspectives for everyone and anyone to cover.

Cons: Dialogue between male and female characters can seem forced at times. The ending is a bit cliche in the sense that "the guy" hooks up with "the girl".

[Christian D. D. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though not actually written by Tom Clancy (R.I.P and God bless), Peter Telep's book contains the sort of high-tech military hardware, action, international intrigue, real-world relevant plotlines (this one involving the Russians), and engaging characters worthy of a Clancy fan. Former GRU Colonel Viktoria Kolosov AKA "Snegurochka" ("The Snowmaiden") is a particularly memorable character, a female assassin who puts La Femme Nikita completely to shame.

[Zach Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story started in Russia on a recon mission with Joint Strike Force pilot Major Stephanie Halverson. She was testing a revolutionary new radar device until she was shot down. While another character "Lex" was persuing a wanted terrorist, that soon will lead into much, much more things happening. Read it to find out!

[Christopher · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book for the most part it had the standard feel of a Clancy novel but about halfway through it felt like every thing was being rushed to the end. There were some rather large jumps in the plot. Good Start, weak finish.

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

the book its self was good I like the fact that it was a scify book the way it changed from lex point of view to the pilots point of view to the snow maidens point of view the settings where good this is what caused me to read it multiple times

[DJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I'd run across the first of this series first however I didn't. Either way i'll be reading the rest of them that is for sure. Rest assured your won't be disappointed.

[Bill Donhiser · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical Tom Clancy clone,a quick read, lots of technology, action, war. A good time passer but not as good as Clancy's own or a lot of other action stories.

[Ike · Rating 3 out of 5]

One word = wraith

[Judy Green]

Unc

[Sabastian Burlison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome!

While not as strong as the other two novels. It was a worthy addition and great way to end the trilogy. Loved the callbacks to other Clancy Novels.

7/10

[Darren · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a good book. I liked it a lot. It was a well written book. It was full of action/adventure.

[Gerjan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Het is een mooi en spannend boek. Een nadeel vind ik zijn de meerdere lijnen in het verhaal. Ik heb vaak dan de neiging om het overzicht te verliezen maar hier was het goed geschreven en was het overzicht ook goed te houden. Plus punt is ook hoe de verhalen weer samen komen.