Retribution
December 2553. Less than a year after the end of the Covenant War,
a string of violent incidents continues to threaten the tenuous peace
in human-held space, culminating in the assassination of UNSC fleet
admiral Graselyn Tuwa and the abduction of her family. It is a
provocation so outrageous that the Office of Naval Intelligence must
retaliate swiftly and ferociously—but only after its operatives identify
her killer and rescue the hostages.
This mission will be the
first for homicide-detective-turned-ONI-operative Veta Lopis and her
young team of Spartan-IIIs, and something feels wrong from the start.
The obvious suspect is an infamous Brute who leads the Keepers of the
One Freedom, an ex-Covenant splinter group in fierce opposition to the
UNSC. But Lopis and her team soon realize that the truth is much more
insidious than they could ever have imagined, and with Fred-104,
Kelly-087, and Linda-058 of Blue Team for combat support, they must stop
a plan hatched in the bowels of the secret research station Argent
Moon—a plan so sinister it could destroy all those still reeling from
thirty years of intergalactic conflict...
Authored by Troy Denning
