The New York Times bestseller--part of the expanded universe based
on the award-winning video game series Halo!
The twenty-sixth century. Once considered clandestine, the Spartan-II
program has now gone public. Tales of armored super-soldiers fending off
thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. While the
Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the
Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultra-secret
cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as "Section Three"
devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. It will need hundreds of
willing soldiers, though--and one more Spartan--to get the job done.
The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this
new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something
is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, and
fleets of UNSC and Covenant vessels race to claim it and change the
course of the Human-Covenant War. But this reawakened and ancient force
may have plans of its own...