The Division: Broken Dawn is a novel starring four main characters and set in the world of Tom Clancy's The Division. It is written by Alex Irving and contains events related to both the first game as well as its sequel, The Division 2.
Aurelio Diaz is a Division agent from Washington D.C. who had to leave the capital in order to join with the Second Wave of Division agents after the failure of the First Wave. Having two kids, he had to leave the latter two behind when he went to New York.
One of these, Violet, is a part of the doomed Castle settlement. April Kelleher is a woman who has traveled across the New York Dark Zone many times to find answers about her husband's murder and finally gets them, leading to more questions. Finally, there is Ike Ronson, who is a Division agent that has gone rogue and begun working with the Black Tusk.
All four of these individuals find their fates intertwined when April discovers that there is a broad-spectrum anti-viral medication that is not just a treatment for the Dollar Flu but an actual cure for it. It has the potential to prevent future outbreaks and may be the key to bringing the United States back from the brink. It may also be a source of unimaginable power to whoever controls it.
It is an Interquel between The Division and The Division 2.
It has a pseudo-sequel in the The Division: Extremis Malis.
This book contains the following tropes:
- Action Girl: April is ridiculously capable and ends up killing three Neo-Nazis trying to assault her out of a group of six before needing to be rescued.
- Action Survivor: Despite just being an ordinary housewife prior to the pandemic, April has become a badass who regularly visits the New York City Dark Zone and plans to travel all the way to Ann Arbor to find her husband's legacy.
- Adorably Precocious Child: Violet is a lot more intelligent than everyone assumes she is while still acting like a child, picking up on how much the adults are lying to her.
- Ascended Extra: April Kelleher was the wife of a brilliant bio-scientist who comes to New York to investigate her husband's murder despite the collapse of civilization.
- Call to Agriculture: A lot of human beings are returning to a more rustic and primitive existence outside of the cities in order to survive.
- Church Militant: The Riverside Templars are warrior monks who defend the inhabitants of New York City. April barely bats an eyelash at how weird this is.
- Crusading Widow: April wants to find out who murdered her husband and crosses the apocalyptic Earth to do so.
- Doomed Hometown: Violet's home in the Castle is not safe due to the fact it is slaughtered in The Division 2.
- Ensemble Cast: There's four main POV characters with their own plots.
- Face–Heel Turn: Ike Ronson used to be a loyal Division agent but has gone Rogue out of a belief the United States is doomed.
- Foregone Conclusion: Fans of The Division 2 will know the Castle is going to be slaughtered by the True Sons.
- Government Conspiracy: The book establishes that Gordon Amherst's plot to release the Dollar Flu may have been a lone actor's plot but that many people in the government were aware of it and approved of it as a way to establish their global dominance.
- I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Ike's justifications are that he thinks that his employers will get the country back on his feet but when confronted, just believes they're going to win any inevitable war anyway.
- Macguffin: The broad spectrum anti-virals are a specialized treatment that can cure the Dollar Flu. It was created by April's late husband.
- Never My Fault: Ike is very defensive over the fact that he got fourteen people killed and is a traitor to the Division as well as his country.
- Not His Sled: The Castle manages to last until the end of the book and survive the attack made against it.
- Nebulous Evil Organization: Mantis works for one of these and has managed to subhorn Ike Ronson into working for them. It is actually the Black Tusk.
- No Ending: The group breaks up into different directions without any real resolution to any of their plots.
- Rape as Drama: The Jamestown Aryans apparently assault lone women and kidnap them to be made into their "wives." At least the white ones.
- Series Continuity Error: April brings news to the White House JTF that the broad spectrum anti-virus exists but they find out about it from President Ellis in The Division 2.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Ike's attempt to create a distraction to get out of the city results in fourteen people being killed, including children.
- Would Hurt a Child: A Hyena shoots Wyatt despite him being eleven.
- You All Share My Story: All of the characters' plots are connected before splitting apart again.
