USA TODAY BESTSELLER A Master Chief story and original full-length novel
set in the Halo universe--based on the New York Times bestselling video
game series!October 2559. It has been a year 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, 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. Their former home and training
ground--and the site of humanity's most cataclysmic military defeat near
the end of the Covenant War--Reach 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. But 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. And with the fate of the
galaxy hanging in the balance, mission failure is not an option...
