Halo: Glasslands

Halo: Glasslands opens the Kilo-Five Trilogy in the uneasy months after the Human-Covenant War. Dr. Catherine Halsey, architect of the SPARTAN-II program, is stranded with surviving Spartans on a hidden Forerunner shield world, while ONI captain Serin Osman forms a new covert unit, Kilo-Five, to protect a fragile human-Sangheili peace. On Sanghelios, the Arbiter Thel 'Vadam struggles to hold his fractured people together against rivals like the ambitious Jul 'Mdama and the religious extremist Avu Med 'Telcam, both of whom see the truce as a betrayal. Karen Traviss weaves military action with political intrigue and the moral cost of the Spartan program's darkest secrets.