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* ''[[Literature/TheDivisionOperationCrossroads The Division: Operation Crossroads]]'' - A series by Thomas Parrott that expands the mission of the Division across the United States.

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* ''[[Literature/TheDivisionOperationCrossroads The Division: Operation Operation: Crossroads]]'' - A series by Thomas Parrott that expands the mission of the Division across the United States.

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* ''The Division: Recruited'' by Thomas Parrot (2022) - A young woman named Maira Kanhai is recruited into the Division after the outbreak. A Operations Crossroads novel.
* ''The Division: Compromised'' by (2022) - Environmental terrorists threaten rebuilding as hard choices must be made in Texas. A Operation: Crossroads novel.

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* ''The ''[[Literature/TheDivisionOperationCrossroads The Division: Recruited'' Operation Crossroads]]'' - A series by Thomas Parrot Parrott that expands the mission of the Division across the United States.
** ''Recruited''
(2022) - A young woman named Maira Kanhai is recruited into the Division after the outbreak. A Operations Crossroads novel.
* ''The Division: Compromised'' by
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** ''Compromised''
(2022) - Environmental terrorists threaten rebuilding as hard choices must be made in Texas. A Operation: Crossroads novel.Texas.
** ''Hunted'' (2024) - Maira is branded a rogue agent and the forces of the Division must track her down.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Cleaners want to annihilate the infection destroying New York and believe fire is the only way.

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Cleaners want to annihilate the infection believe anything and everything they do is justified by destroying New York the virus. This is undermined by the sadistic pleasure they take in burning people alive and believe fire is the only way.questionable results of their efforts.
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* ''The Division: Broken Dawn'' (2019) - A novel about a Division agent named Diaz.

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* ''The ''[[Literature/TheDivisionBrokenDawn The Division: Broken Dawn'' Dawn]]'' (2019) - A novel about a Division agent named Diaz.Diaz and [[spoiler: April Kelleher]].
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* DarkerAndEdgier: ''The Division'' games are third person shooter RPGs so it is a power fantasy where you shoot down hundreds of opponents. Here, just a few armed individuals is a threat to any agent. Killing is also traumatizing.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: ''The Division'' games are third person shooter RPGs [=RPGs=] so it is a power fantasy where you shoot down hundreds of opponents. Here, just a few armed individuals is a threat to any agent. Killing is also traumatizing.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: ''The Division'' games are third person shooter RPGs so it is a power fantasy where you shoot down hundreds of opponents. Here, just a few armed individuals is a threat to any agent. Killing is also traumatizing.


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* PrivateMilitaryContractor: The Last Man Battalion operates as employees of Wallstreet executives until deciding to go rogue.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: The worst villains are the True Sons, Last Man Battalion, and Black Tusk PMC are the worst. The JTF, the one good guy faction, has done terrible things.


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* CityOfAdventure: New York City transforms from a thriving metropolis to a lawless anarchic hellhole where people fight for survival.


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* DemocracyIsFlawed: The United States badly mishandles the Dollar Flu and is subsequently devastated by the pandemic. This is in part due to the fact that its elected leaders do not prioritize dealing with the virus over the the public backlash.

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* ActionGirl:
** Melanie Hoskins is a paramedic turned Division agent who rapidly learns how to use firearms for surviving the post-apocalypse world.
** Maira Kanhai has to adapt quickly to becoming a Division agent despite lacking their usual training.
* AffablyEvil: ''Hearts of Fire'''s Johanna Fisher is a courageous, funny, and likable young woman--who burns down buildings full of innocents.

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* ActionGirl:
** Melanie Hoskins is a paramedic turned
ActionGirl: All of the female Division agent who rapidly learns how to use firearms agents are given the same training as the men in guns, tactics, and survival for surviving the post-apocalypse world.
** Maira Kanhai has to adapt quickly to becoming a Division agent despite lacking their usual training.
* AffablyEvil: ''Hearts of Fire'''s Johanna Fisher is a courageous, funny, and likable young woman--who burns down buildings full of innocents.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: In ''Hearts on Fire'', unlike the Cleaners who KickTheDog repeatedly, the Last Man Battalion is shown to have been driven to their revolt by the incompetence of the government as opposed to being genuinely evil.



* CainAndAbel: Johanna Fisher and Melanie Hoskins are siblings that belong to the opposing Cleaners and Division factions.



* DarkActionGirl: ''Hearts of Fire'''s, Johanna Fisher is a Cleaner and Iraq War veteran who enjoys burning down buildings out of a misguided sense of believing she's saving the city.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Melanie's sister, Johanna Fisher, is a New York City garbage woman and conspiracy theorist who hates the government. She's also a veteran. Of course she ends up joining the Cleaners and helps radicalize them..



* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Agent Anderson in ''Hearts on Fire'' finds out that his family, which had been quarantined but were otherwise healthy, were burned alive by the Cleaners. He proceeds to, understandingly, try to kill as many of them as possible.
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* ''Literature/TheDivisionHeartsOnFire'' (2021) - An audiobook hosted on Audible. Melanie Hoskins is an ActionGirl recruited during the early days of the pandemic. A tie-into the Operation: Crossroads.

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* ''Literature/TheDivisionHeartsOnFire'' ''[[Literature/TheDivisionHeartsOnFire The Division: Hearts on Fire]]'' (2021) - An audiobook hosted on Audible. Melanie Hoskins is an ActionGirl recruited during the early days of the pandemic. A tie-into the Operation: Crossroads.
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* ''The Division: Hearts on Fire'' (2021) - An audiobook hosted on Audible. Melanie Hoskins is an ActionGirl recruited during the early days of the pandemic. A tie-into the Operation: Crossroads.

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* ''The Division: Hearts on Fire'' ''Literature/TheDivisionHeartsOnFire'' (2021) - An audiobook hosted on Audible. Melanie Hoskins is an ActionGirl recruited during the early days of the pandemic. A tie-into the Operation: Crossroads.
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* WellIntentionedExtremists: The Cleaners want to annihilate the infection destroying New York and believe fire is the only way.

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* WellIntentionedExtremists: WellIntentionedExtremist: The Cleaners want to annihilate the infection destroying New York and believe fire is the only way.
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* AffablyEvil: ''Hearts of Fire'''s Johanna Fisher is a courageous, funny, and likable young woman--who burns down buildings full of innocents.


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* CainAndAbel: Johanna Fisher and Melanie Hoskins are siblings that belong to the opposing Cleaners and Division factions.


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* KillItWithFire: The Cleaners MO is to wipe out any problems they encounter with flamethrowers.


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* WellIntentionedExtremists: The Cleaners want to annihilate the infection destroying New York and believe fire is the only way.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Melanie's sister is a New York City garbage woman and conspiracy theorist who hates the government. She's also a veteran. Of course she ends up joining the Cleaners and helps radicalize them..

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* DarkActionGirl: ''Hearts of Fire'''s, Johanna Fisher is a Cleaner and Iraq War veteran who enjoys burning down buildings out of a misguided sense of believing she's saving the city.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Melanie's sister sister, Johanna Fisher, is a New York City garbage woman and conspiracy theorist who hates the government. She's also a veteran. Of course she ends up joining the Cleaners and helps radicalize them..
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** Many people believe the Division is StateSec and part of the takeover of the US by CERN. The Division is just made of a bunch of everyday citizens recruited as SleeperAgents in the event of a catastrophe.

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** Many people believe the Division is StateSec and part of the takeover of the US by CERN. The Division is just made of a bunch of everyday citizens recruited as SleeperAgents a SleeperAgent in the event of a catastrophe.

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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Each book, except for the guide books, has a different Division agent and their story.




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* WrongGenreSavvy:
** The Cleaners and Outcasts believe that the government created the Dollar Flu to justify a military takeover of the United States. It was actually created by a random radical virulogist. There ''is'' a conspiracy to take over the United States but it's by the Black Tusk PMC and their government stooges who had nothing to do with the plague.
** Many people believe the Division is StateSec and part of the takeover of the US by CERN. The Division is just made of a bunch of everyday citizens recruited as SleeperAgents in the event of a catastrophe.

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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: In ''Hearts on Fire'', unlike the Cleaners who KickTheDog repeatedly, the Last Man Battalion is shown to have been driven to their revolt by the incompetence of the government as opposed to being genuinely evil.




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* WesternTerrorists: The in-game enemies like the True Sons, Cleaners, and Outcasts are treated more like these than criminals or rioting citizens. Their actions are frequently shown to target civilians and are designed to intimidate the populace versus survival.

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* ''The Division: Hearts on Fire'' (2021) - An audiobook hosted on Audible. A tie-into the Operation: Crossroads.

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* ''The Division: Hearts on Fire'' (2021) - An audiobook hosted on Audible. Melanie Hoskins is an ActionGirl recruited during the early days of the pandemic. A tie-into the Operation: Crossroads.



* ActionGirl:
** Melanie Hoskins is a paramedic turned Division agent who rapidly learns how to use firearms for surviving the post-apocalypse world.
** Maira Kanhai has to adapt quickly to becoming a Division agent despite lacking their usual training.



* AllThereInTheManual: ''The World of Tom Clancy's Division'' ''is'' the manual and describes large amounts of lore about the state of the world not present in the game that would later be canonized by the sequels.
* ConspiracyTheorist: The Outcasts and Cleaners are both revealed to have elaborate theories about how the Dollar Flu was created as well as spread. Despite the existence of real conspiracies in-setting, all of their views are completely wrong.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Melanie's sister is a New York City garbage woman and conspiracy theorist who hates the government. She's also a veteran. Of course she ends up joining the Cleaners and helps radicalize them..



* NotQuiteTheRightThing: The Cleaners are shown to burn down quarantined apartment buildings that are already cut off from the rest of the city and killing both the recovering as well as sick alike. This prevents people who might have been subsequently immune from helping rebuild society.




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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Agent Anderson in ''Hearts on Fire'' finds out that his family, which had been quarantined but were otherwise healthy, were burned alive by the Cleaners. He proceeds to, understandingly, try to kill as many of them as possible.
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A series of novels set in ''VideoGame/TheDivision'' universe by Creator/{{Ubisoft}}. It chronicles the story of the [[ThePlague Dollar Flu]] and the fall of the United States into anarchy following its release. It stars various agents of the Strategic Homeland Division (AKA SHD or "The Division").

Each of the books stars a different agent of the Division and follows how they are recruited, deal with the various crises that emerge, and make moral choices related to the impossible situation they find themselves in. The books tend to be set during the build-up to the events of the first game or set between the first and second one.

The books are officially {{canon}} to the game's universe as references begin showing up to their events in the ''VideoGame/TheDivision2'''s expansion seasons.

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* ''The Division: New York Collapse'' (2016) - A companion guide to the post-Dollar Flu New York.
* ''The Division: Broken Dawn'' (2019) - A novel about a Division agent named Diaz.
* ''The World of Tom Clancy's Division'' (2019) - A guidebook to the various factions and the state of the world.
* ''The Division: Hearts on Fire'' (2021) - An audiobook hosted on Audible. A tie-into the Operation: Crossroads.
* ''The Division: Recruited'' by Thomas Parrot (2022) - A young woman named Maira Kanhai is recruited into the Division after the outbreak. A Operations Crossroads novel.
* ''The Division: Compromised'' by (2022) - Environmental terrorists threaten rebuilding as hard choices must be made in Texas. A Operation: Crossroads novel.

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These books have the following tropes:

* AfterTheEnd: The majority of the books take place after the collapse of American society after the Dollar Flu has ravaged the country.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The SHD are a fictional department of Homeland Security that is meant to deal with catastrophic disasters.
* ThePlague: The Dollar Flu is the basis for all of the books as it wipes out whole chunks of the United States.

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