Halo: Shadows of Reach

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 that 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. . . .