HALO: Glasslands Audiobook (Free)

The first novel of the Kilo-Five Trilogy by #1 NY Times bestselling author Karen Traviss—area of the expanded universe based on the award-winning gaming series Halo!

2553. The theocratic armed forces alliance known as the Covenant offers collapsed after an extended, brutal war with humanity that noticed billions slaughtered on the planet and its colonies. For the first time in thirty years, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting offers stopped, the war is far from over: it’s just about HALO: Glasslands gone underground. The United Nations Space Command’s feared and secretive Workplace of Naval Cleverness recruits Kilo-Five—a clandestine team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, a Spartan super-soldier, and a diabolical AI—to accelerate the insurrection inside the Covenant’s warrior varieties, the Sangheili, even while their significant defector-turned-leader Thel ‘Vadam—the Arbiter—struggles to stave off civil war among his divided people.

Across the galaxy, a female considered to have died in the Covenant attack on the planet Reach is actually very much alive. Main scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey broke every regulation in the reserve to create the Spartan plan, and today she’s broken some more rules to save lots of them. Marooned with Older Chief Petty Official Franklin Mendez and a Spartan team inside a Forerunner slipspace bubble concealed in the damaged globe Onyx, Halsey finds that this place has been guarding an ancient key—a treasure trove of Forerunner technology which will transformation everything for the UNSC and mankind. As Kilo-Five joins the search for Halsey, mankind’s violent past begins to catch up with most of them as the disgruntled colony Venezia has been biding its time to strike at Globe…and its most dangerous terrorist has an previous, painful hyperlink with both Halsey and Kilo-Five that may test everyone’s commitment to the limit.