High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Resistance: The Gathering Storm is a 2009 science fiction novel based on the Resistance video game series and acts as a midquel to Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2. It was written by William C. Dietz. The novel details several months after the events in Fall of Man and takes place during the Chimera`s early invasion of the United States of America, and follows Nathan Hale`s experience months following the events that unfolded in Iceland, which detailed Hale`s original mission with the SRPA shortly after his "departure" from Britain.