Cole Protocol Novel
2535. It is the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War,
and the United Nations Space Command has enacted “the Cole Protocol” to
safeguard Earth and its inner colonies from discovery by its merciless
alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the galaxy of lingering
navigation data that could potentially reveal the location of Earth and
ensure the destruction of humanity. Among those tasked with eliminating
any trace of such dangerous information is Navy Lieutenant Jacob
Keyes—now saddled with a top-secret mission by the Office of Naval
Intelligence…one that will take him to a corner of the galaxy where
nothing is as it seems.
Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the
planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the
Covenant continues to glass the human-occupied planets near Hesiod, many
of the survivors, aided by a stronghold of human insurrectionists, are
fleeing to the asteroids for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling
satellites into a tenuous yet ingenious settlement known as the
Rubble—and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of
Kig-Yar…yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to
the warring factions. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in
the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-person renegade squad whose
simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they
see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their very best—an ambitious
and ruthless Elite whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by
his brutality…
Authored by Tobias Buckell
