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Halo: Glasslands

By: Karen Traviss
Narrated by: Euan Morton
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 The first novel of the Kilo-Five Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!

2553. The theocratic military alliance known as the Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war with humanity that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and its colonies. For the first time in thirty years, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting has stopped, the war is far from over: it’s just gone underground. The United Nations Space Command’s feared and secretive Office of Naval Intelligence recruits Kilo-Five—a clandestine team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, a Spartan super-soldier, and a diabolical AI—to accelerate the insurrection within the Covenant’s warrior species, the Sangheili, even as their notable defector-turned-leader Thel ‘Vadam—the Arbiter—struggles to stave off civil war among his divided people.

Across the galaxy, a woman thought to have died in the Covenant attack on the planet Reach is actually very much alive. Chief scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey broke every law in the book to create the Spartan program, and now she’s broken some more rules to save them. Marooned with Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez and a Spartan team in a Forerunner slipspace bubble hidden in the destroyed planet Onyx, Halsey finds that this place has been guarding an ancient secret—a treasure trove of Forerunner technology that will change everything for the UNSC and mankind. As Kilo-Five joins the hunt for Halsey, humanity’s violent past begins to catch up with all of them as the disgruntled colony Venezia has been biding its time to strike at Earth…and its most dangerous terrorist has an old, painful link with both Halsey and Kilo-Five that will test everyone’s loyalty to the limit. Adventure Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Military Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction
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By far the halo book I have read so far. It’s genuinely well written which is not something I can say about the majority of halo novels.

Spectacular

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Oh that sweet Halo lore, I want more!
A thank you to Brian David Gilbert for recommending this trilogy!
And a big thank you to Karen Travis for this amazing story I look forward to the next book! :)

AWESOME!!!!!!!

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the voice actor barely changed the voice foe each character and most the time base of the voices I could not tell who was male or female

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Great lore story that fills in the gaps between Halo 3-4 and good voice acting, the Australian accents were actually done quite well.

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The Dr Halsey bashing seemed a little over the top at times. Especially from the people that also were involved in the Spartan 2 (and 3) Program. Otherwise great story and book.

Great start to an epic story

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