Description

The Definitive Edition to the First and Bestselling Halo Novel, Including Twenty-seven Pages of New Material
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Legends aren’t simply born…they’re willed into existence.
Humanity has expanded beyond the Sol System. There are hundreds of planets we now call “home.”
The United Nations Space Command now struggles to keep watch over this vast empire.
After exhausting all strategies to keep seething insurrections from exploding into interplanetary civil war, the us has one last hope.
At the Place of work of Naval Intelligence, Dr. Catherine Halsey has been hard at work on a top secret program that could bring an end to all this conflict…and it starts with seventy-five children, among them a six year old boy named John.
Halsey never guessed that this little boy would turn into humanity’s final hope against a vast alien force hell-bent on wiping us out.
This is the story of John, Spartan-117…the Master Chief, and of the battles that brought humanity head to head with its imaginable extinction.
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This new Tor edition will serve as the definitive version of the novel that began Halo fans reading the series, and features brand-new material, including:
Excerpts of Place of work of Naval Intelligence interrogations of the Covenant.
Missives and mandates issued by the Covenant
Declassified transmissions in regards to the defense of Reach
A personal insight into the Spartan program
The Official Evacuation Order for all inhabitants of Reach.
Five sketches of cover art by 343 Industries artist, Robogabo