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    Halo: Glasslands
    Halo: Glasslands
    Halo: Glasslands
    Audiobook15 hours

    Halo: Glasslands

    Written by Karen Traviss

    Narrated by Euan Morton

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The first 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. The theocratic military alliance known as the Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war with humanity that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and its colonies. For the first time in thirty years, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting has stopped, the war is far from over: it’s just gone underground. The United Nations Space Command’s feared and secretive Office of Naval Intelligence recruits Kilo-Five—a clandestine team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, a Spartan super-soldier, and a diabolical AI—to accelerate the insurrection within the Covenant’s warrior species, the Sangheili, even as their notable defector-turned-leader Thel ‘Vadam—the Arbiter—struggles to stave off civil war among his divided people.

    Across the galaxy, a woman thought to have died in the Covenant attack on the planet Reach is actually very much alive. Chief scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey broke every law in the book to create the Spartan program, and now she’s broken some more rules to save them. Marooned with Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez and a Spartan team in a Forerunner slipspace bubble hidden in the destroyed planet Onyx, Halsey finds that this place has been guarding an ancient secret—a treasure trove of Forerunner technology that will change everything for the UNSC and mankind. As Kilo-Five joins the hunt for Halsey, humanity’s violent past begins to catch up with all of them as the disgruntled colony Venezia has been biding its time to strike at Earth…and its most dangerous terrorist has an old, painful link with both Halsey and Kilo-Five that will test everyone’s loyalty to the limit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio / Halo Books
    Release dateJan 1, 2019
    ISBN9781508284703
    Halo: Glasslands
    Author

    Karen Traviss

    Karen Traviss is a former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist. She has worked in public relations for the police and local government, and has served in the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and the Territorial Army. The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, Star Wars-Republic Commando: Hard Contact, Triple Zero, and Star Wars-Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines, she lives in Wiltshire, England.

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    • 5/5
      Karen Traviss writing is on another level, but what really took the cake for me was the truly powerful voice acting of Euan Morton. I constantly found myself completely immersed in the story thanks to the accents and tones of its characters it was almost inhuman how one man can embody so many diffrent attitudes and personalitys. It was the first audiobook i have listened too that gave me that dizzy feeling after reading for a while (you know what i mean). Spectacular
    • 5/5
      One of the best stories. A smooth continuation of existing plot threads and a fascinating, deeper look into the ethics and reactions to difficult decisions that have been made in the past.