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  • HALO: The Thursday War

  • HALO, Book 9
  • By: Karen Traviss
  • Narrated by: Euan Morton
  • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (203 ratings)

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HALO: The Thursday War

By: Karen Traviss
Narrated by: Euan Morton
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Summary

The second novel of the Kilo-Five Trilogy by number-one New York Times best-selling author Karen Traviss - part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!

It's 2553. Welcome to humanity’s new war: silent, high-stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for the Office of Naval Intelligence’s black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Sangheili, once the military leaders of the alien alliance known as the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation - keeping the Sangheili occupied with their own insurrection - turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of a brutal civil war.

But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again surfacing on one of the human worlds that survived the war against the Covenant, and the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan Naomi-010.

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

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Pretty good!

Arguably the best in the Kilo-Five trilogy. Some of the characters are interesting and the ending is an neat setup for what's to come.

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love it cant wait for next one

loved it cant wait for the next one its a shame its only 3 books

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Comedy and banter

The banter between kilo five it made me laugh so much and I enjoyed how they made the characters feel real

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Fantastic

Kilo five trilogy was outstanding and gives completely different approach to the master cheif.. So. Impressed and I was emerged immediately. I listened to all 3 back to back.

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amazing middle chapter to Kilo 5 saga

Karen Traviss always writes awesome characters, I loved her work on the Gears of War franchise but I think the Kilo 5 Trilogy is my favourite.

The performance was a great listen too! Sometimes they can take a little getting used to but this one was perfect and even voiced the parts how I envisioned them in my head when reading the book myself.

Highly recommend this book for anyone looking for more Halo content!

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A slow but detailed middle entry to the trilogy.

First, the performance was once again amazing, I didn't think it could get better. The story is unfortunately very slow, but has great detail. I just missed some of the action, no wonder the ODSTs are getting fat!

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Lore porn

This is so well constructed and meaty and asks such complex questions of morality and military and it does it all so well, holy heck

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The narrator

I've read the book. But I bought the audio book because of the narration of this and its prequel.

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excellent

Karen Travers, master story teller, enjoyed your writing style immensely and look forward to other pieces by you.

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massive improvement on glasslands

gripping, interesting and exciting

The political intrigue and cool alien fights make this a must for any sci fi fan

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