HALO: SHADOWS OF REACH Drops Later This Month
Update:The original article incorrectly stated that the book takes place 3 years after Oblivion.
If you can’t get enough of Halo, or maybe you want to revisit the story of Master Chief after playing through Halo 3: ODST which recently came to PC via Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Well, later this month, fans can read Halo: Shadows of Reach from Troy Denning. This is the latest Halo novel and is said to be a standalone story. It’ll take place 33 years after Halo: Oblivion and 1 year after Halo 5: Guardians.
October 2559. It’s been a year since the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana issued a galaxy-wide ultimatum, subjecting many worlds to martial law under the indomitable grip of her Forerunner weapons. Outside her view, the members of Blue Team—John-117, the Master Chief; Fred-104; Kelly-087; and Linda-058—are assigned from the UNSC Infinity to make a covert insertion onto the ravaged planet Reach. Their former home and training ground—and the site of humanity’s most cataclysmic military defeat near the end of the Covenant War—Reach still hides myriad secrets after all these years. Blue Team’s mission is to penetrate the rubble-filled depths of CASTLE Base and recover top-secret assets locked away in Dr. Catherine Halsey’s abandoned laboratory—assets which may prove to be humanity’s last hope against Cortana. But Reach has been invaded by a powerful and ruthless alien faction, who have their own reasons for being there. Establishing themselves as a vicious occupying force on the devastated planet, this enemy will soon transform Blue Team’s simple retrieval operation into a full-blown crisis. And with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, mission failure is not an option…
Fans will be able to read Shadows of Reach on October 20 from your favorite bookstores including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.