The ultimate novel from 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. With the thirty-year-long Covenant Battle finally over, any office of Naval Cleverness faces aged grievances rising once again to threaten Globe. Furious and bitter colonists—still wanting to settle ratings from an insurrection put on keep for three decades—crave justice…as will a guy whose existence was torn aside by ONI when his young child was abducted for the SPARTAN-II program. Black-ops squad Kilo-Five today discover its collective loyalty examined beyond the breaking stage when the father of their Spartan comrade, still searching for the reality about her disappearance, prepares to cup Earth’s metropolitan areas to get an answer. How far will Kilo-Five go to end him? And will he be able to live with the reality when he discovers it? The unpleasant answer is situated with someone long dead, and a conscience that still survives in one of the most unlikely, undiscovered place…