Endwar

I will finish up my last blog post with the ending of Endwar, written by Tom Clancy. The last few scenes of the book were very interesting. Halverson, the pilot who crashed, was being chased by Russians, she previously stole one of the Russians snowmobiles and drove it until the as ran out. She made it quite far, and then it died, right next to a seven hundred yard lake that she was about to cross. She knew that the only way to get away from the Russians was to go across the huge lake. Halverson activated her beacon which would let the Americans find her, but it would also tell the Russians where she was. Halverson was about halfway across the lake when she stopped in her tracks, the sound of gunfire behind her. A whole troop of Russian soldiers, including a tank, were about four hundred yards behind her, every few men taking shots, but not really trying to kill her. All of a sudden, right in front of her a Russian helicopter loomed out in front of her. The American soldiers had overpowered the helicopter and were planning to rescue the pilot, Halverson had no clue. She started firing randomly, striking the helicopter, until she realized that it was Americans that were in it. She reached the helicopter safely, just as the tank launched a rocket, but they were already in the air. This is an understatement, the rocket missed where they were by abut two seconds. This is not the ending of the book, but very close, and if you want to see how it ends, read the book.