The second novel of the Kilo-Five Trilogy by #1 New York Times
bestselling author Karen Traviss--part of the expanded universe based on
the award-winning video game series Halo!2553. Welcome to humanity's new
war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission
for the Office of Naval Intelligence's black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which
is tasked with preventing the ruthless Sangheili, once the military
leaders of the alien alliance known as the Covenant, from regrouping and
threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks
operation--keeping the Sangheili occupied with their own
insurrection--turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of
Kilo-Five from the seething heart of a brutal civil war. But troubles
never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again
surfacing on one of the human worlds that survived the war against the
Covenant, and the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan
Naomi-010. Meanwhile, the treasure trove of Forerunner technology
recovered from the Forerunner shield world of Onyx is being put to work,
even as a kidnapped Sangheili plots vengeance on the humans he fears
will bring his people to the brink of destruction...