Halo: Mortal Dictata

Wars end. But hatred, guilt, and devotion can endure beyond the grave.

With the Covenant War over, the Office of Naval Intelligence faces old grievances rising again to threaten Earth. The angry, bitter colonies, still with scores to settle from the insurrection put on hold for thirty years, now want justice—and so does a man whose life was torn apart by ONI when his daughter was abducted for the SPARTAN-II program.

Black ops squad Kilo-Five find their loyalties tested beyond breaking point when the father of their Spartan comrade, still searching for the truth about her disappearance,prepares to glass Earth’s cities to get an answer. How far will Kilo-Five go to stop him? And will he be able to live with the truth when he finds it? The painful answer lies with a man long dead, and a conscience that still survives in the most unlikely, undiscovered place.

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Karen Traviss is New York Times best-selling novelist, scriptwriter and comics author. She has received critical acclaim for her award-nominated Wess'har series. Her work on Halo, Gears of War, Batman, GI Joe and other major franchises has earned her a broad range of fans. She's best known for military science fiction, but GOING GREY and its sequel BLACK RUN – the first books in her new techno-thriller series, RINGER – are set in the real world of today. A former defence correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist, she lives in Wiltshire, England. She's currently writing SACRIFICIAL RED (Ringer #3), as well as the first book in a new urban science fantasy, and a new fantasy comic series.