HALO: Shadows of Reach

The USA Today best-seller is an original full-length novel and a Master Chief story set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times best-selling video game series. It's October 2559, and a year has passed since the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana issued a galaxy-wide ultimatum, subjecting many worlds to martial law under the indomitable grip of her Forerunner weapons. Outside her view, the members of Blue Team - John-117, also known as the Master Chief; Fred-104; Kelly-087; and Linda-058 - are assigned from the UNSC Infinity to make a covert insertion onto the ravaged planet Reach.

Reach, their former home and training ground, and the site of humanity’s most cataclysmic military defeat near the end of the Covenant War, still hides myriad secrets after all these years. Blue Team’s mission is to penetrate the rubble-filled depths of CASTLE Base and recover top-secret assets locked away in Dr. Catherine Halsey’s abandoned laboratory - assets which may prove to be humanity’s last hope against Cortana. However, Reach has been invaded by a powerful and ruthless alien faction, who have their own reasons for being there.

Establishing themselves as a vicious occupying force on the devastated planet, this enemy will soon transform Blue Team’s simple retrieval operation into a full-blown crisis. With the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, mission failure is not an option.

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