Halo: The Thursday War

In Halo: The Thursday War, readers discover humanity’s new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI’s black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again.

What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation, keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection, turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of an alien civil war. But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again surfacing on one of the worlds that survived the war against the Covenant, and the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan-010.

Meanwhile, the treasure trove of Forerunner technology recovered from the shield world of Onyx is being put to work while a kidnapped Elite plots vengeance on the humans he fears will bring his people to the brink of destruction.

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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.