An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the
New York Times bestselling video game series!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 some-thing feels wrong from the start. The obvious
suspect is an infamous Brute dokab who leads the Keepers of the One
Freedom, a 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 along with Fred-104, Kelly-087,
and Linda-058 of Blue Team for combat support, 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
inter-galactic conflict....