Glasslands Novel
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.
Authored by Karen Traviss
