Tom Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse

Tom Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse is a novel released by Ubisoft and written by Alex Irving. The book details the actions of April Kelleher, a woman who is in New York City at the time of the pandemic.

Although activated Division agents have received complete survival training and are capable of surviving under extreme conditions, most civilians do not enjoy similar resources. For a significant portion of the population of New York City, owning a survival guide became a tremendous asset after the virus continued to spread. One particular volume, New York Collapse, soon became the most valuable and widely read title of its kind. The guide is packed with expert tips to aid readers in preparing for and surviving a pandemic in the city of New York. In point of fact, author Warren Merchant so accurately predicts the challenges hypothetically posed by an engineered virus, that some have come to suspiciously question how indeed he was able to write so prophetically.

In its eleven chapters, New York Collapse first provides an overview of the imminent threats that could lead to the downfall of the city, and then provides essential survival information such as:
 * What to pack in one's go-bag
 * Field first aid
 * Where to procure or cultivate food
 * How to purify water

New York Collapse has reportedly become a coveted black-market item. One heavily annotated copy recovered in Manhattan's Midtown quarantine area - the infamous Dark Zone - belonged to a civilian named April Kelleher. After witnessing the murder of her husband, Bill, Ms. Kelleher began her own investigation into the cause of the outbreak, simultaneously working to uncover who had ordered her husband's assassination. Kelleher turned her copy of the guide into a riveting, highly detailed chronicle of the Green Poison catastrophe as perceived from the ground level. By adding extensive handwritten notes, April contextualized the guide's instructions to her own experience, sharing specific anecdotes related to the published content therein. Akin to a diary, she recounted her personal thoughts and chronicled her perplexity with regard to her husband's demise, and also her struggle to understand how and why New York City fell. Little by little, April managed to decipher key messages encrypted in the text by the author of the book. Those clues led April into the Dark Zone to meet Warren Merchant, hoping to find more answers to the questions that had been plaguing her. April was last spotted leaving Manhattan, and it is rumored that she went to investigate leads to a posse treatment for the Green Poison.

Writing Styles
The book has three different styles in it. First, we have printed words, which are the survival guide's actual text. This is what April would have been reading. Next, we have the words in black ink. The black ink is April's first impressions of the book, but these will change over time. Finally, there is the blue ink. The blue ink is also April, but at a later point where she starts to make connections between the book and recent events. Whether these are true or not is up for debate. There are other styles in the book, but they are all April at varying points in time.