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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…
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#1 New York Times best-selling novelist, screenwriter and comics author KAREN TRAVISS has received critical acclaim for her award-nominated Wess'har series, as well as regularly hitting the bestseller lists with her Star Wars, Gears of War, and Halo work. She was also lead writer on the 2011 blockbuster game Gears of War 3. A former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, she lives in Wiltshire, England.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07L8NS589
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Jan. 1 2019
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 9.7 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 466 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1982111809
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  • Book 2 of 3 ‏ : ‎ Halo: Kilo-Five Trilogy
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Karen Traviss is the author of a dozen New York Times bestsellers, and her critically-acclaimed Wess’har books have been finalists five times for the Campbell and Philip K. Dick awards. She also writes thrillers, comics, and games with military and political themes. A former defence correspondent, TV journalist, and spin doctor (okay, nobody's perfect) she lives in Wiltshire, England. She expects to be remembered for her devotion to brewing sake and fermenting anything that stands still long enough to be stuffed in a jar.

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  • Dylan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting
    Reviewed in Canada on July 10, 2025
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    An amazing follow up to the 1st book. The dialogue is amazing and so are the presentations of the inner minds of the characters
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  • fastreader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Internal disruption and civil war on Sanghelios. Did humanity really win the war ?
    Reviewed in Canada on March 18, 2013
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    The war with the Covenant has been won by humanity but that doesn't mean the work is over.

    In this latest edition in the HALO series we find a deep undercover operation to disrupt the Covenants warriors, the Sangheli, from becoming a future threat.

    Humanity is exploring the shield world of Onyx to determine how to use the technology left by the Forerunners who disappeared over 100,000 years before. Of course the Sangheli also want to use that technology to eradicate humanity.

    The undercover operations on Sanghelios is soon blown as civil war breaks out amongst the various factions and the manipulation by humanity starts to show to those paying attention.

    The UNSC has a new ship with Forerunner technology included and it is soon sent to Sanghelios to balance out the various fighting factions to ensure it continues to disrupt any attempts to organize.

    Well drawn characters and story arc all lead to a great read. Plus the book ends without tying everything up so you know there is another book coming.

    The entire HALO series is well written and highly recommended to those who like military science fiction
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  • Seraphof7
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on August 3, 2017
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    Always enjoy Traviss's writing
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  • Tyralun
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best halo books yet.
    Reviewed in Canada on November 18, 2012
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    Karen Traviss stuns us again with another Halo epic. There is significantly more combat than in Glasslands (where there are only two scenes with guns being fired) but stays true to her focus on character and plot developments pushing the story along.

    This for me is the second best halo book and the sequel to the best, Glasslands. It is a great read, ESPECIALLY FOR NON-FANS OF HALO. Traviss continues to show that Halo can stand on its own outside of the video games, and that its lore and back story are incredibly entertaining, vivid, detailed, and riveting.
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  • 鶹 Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fast shipping. Product is as described and highly recommend.
    Reviewed in Canada on October 20, 2016
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    Fast shipping. Product is as described and highly recommend.
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  • Blackrabbit
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
    Reviewed in Canada on November 30, 2013
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    I can't wait for the third book...I just hope she brings it all to a satisfying close, now that she has dredged up all these bits of one of the characters past.
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  • Tom
    3.0 out of 5 stars Ok
    Reviewed in Canada on October 1, 2016
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    Not a bad read. Not sure what else to write, but 鶹 says I need more filler words. Two more.
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  • Dave Gravel
    5.0 out of 5 stars love it
    Reviewed in Canada on February 21, 2013
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    Very good book can't wait for the next one I hope it's gonna be soon well in the meantime there still the forerunner saga
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  • Lutrosis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another great addition to the Halo series
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2017
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    Another great addition to the Halo series. POSSIBLE SPOILER: I've noticed that only the first few books in this series has much to do with Master Chief. He's definitely referenced in many of the other books, but you don't find out what happens to him, or what he goes through, or Cortana. I've only played the first Halo so likely all of that is explained in the other games. These books however, give great insight into the Halo universe. They add a lot of depth to everything- the covenant, each species therein and just a deeper understanding of their social life as well as cultural history, the Forerunner as well as another species the Precursors... just a lot of history and depth added that the games just couldn't provide.

    I strongly recommend this book, but in context- read the others before it or a lot of it may not make much sense. Karen's "trilogy" here gives a more personal look into the lives of Spartans after the war, what happens between the humans and the remnants of the covenant, how everybody ends up coping and the general direction the post-war universe will be heading in. This is a clean trilogy with some violence and gore but not nearly as graphic in the detail as some of the first novels in this Halo series. Virtually no sex or sexual innuendo, very clean in this regard. The story follows a couple of ODST so there's some mild suggestive humor but by far very clean. As far as language and vulgarity- there's some, but not horrible. Also relatively clean especially by today's standards.

    All in all a very great read. Recommended highly. This whole series is amazing actually. Only one book I had a real gripe with and that was only due to how it ended, felt that bit could've been left out. Really, I feel that'd make this series rate around 9.8/10- so pretty awesome and worth the read IMO.
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  • Loxton
    4.0 out of 5 stars Better than Glasslands, but still not incredible compared to other Halo novels.
    Reviewed in Australia on September 25, 2015
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    This is a marked improvement over the overly zealous -opinionated- writing in glasslands. I feel the characters had some more facets and there were more grey areas than simple black and white.
    I shall be fast to finish this trilogy to both revel in the lore that it conveyed (albeit inelegantly from my perspective) and to rid myself of reading this writing style that is almost a disservice to the Halo franchise.
    Essentially I feel very mixed about the style of writing employed. Enjoyable but not to the standard I would desire in a Halo novel.
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  • Amrandles
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, a must read!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2012
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    Here goes with my first review.....

    I'll try to keep spoilers out as best I can too.

    I recommend this book to anyone, even those who aren't Halo fans. Karen Traviss is one of my favourite authors and she brings a gritty reality to the Halo Universe with a firm grounding of real military thinking.

    I highly recommend everyone to read this book before playing Halo 4 as there are a lot of questions answered.

    The way she makes the characters feel so real is wonderful alongside the epic science fiction elements.
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  • javier
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente
    Reviewed in Mexico on November 2, 2017
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    La continuación de la historia del equipo kilo V y su parte en esta guerra. La historia es intrigante, entretenida y te hace siempre querer saber mas
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  • Sandman77
    3.0 out of 5 stars Vielleicht wird es noch was?
    Reviewed in Germany on April 8, 2013
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    Ich habe fast jeder HALO Buch gelesen und auch dieses sehnsüchtig erwartet. Ich hoffe Teil Drei erfüllt meine Wünsche da dieses Buch ist besser als sein direkte Vorgänger dennoch weit entfernt ein Klassiker zu werden und für jeden empfehlenswert. Vielleicht mag ich die Geschichte nicht? Ohne was zu verraten finde ich Persönlich einiges eindeutig und erwartungsvoll.
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