The Silent Storm

Author Name: Troy Dineen

"It's the year 2526. It's been a year since humanity first made devastating contact with a theocratic military alliance of alien races known as the Pact. Now, hostilities have ignited open warfare, with the United Nations Space Command having little idea about their new enemy. There were only two facts to be known—that the Pact was determined to wipe out humanity, and that they had the superior technology to do it. The UNSC's only hope lay in the Spartans: enhanced super-soldiers trained and bred from infancy through a covert black ops project to become living weapons. Their commander, junior officer "John-117," was assigned to lead the Spartans in a desperate counterattack designed to shake the Pact's confidence and buy humanity the time it needed to gather information and prepare its defenses. But Not everyone wants the Spartans to succeed. A coalition of human rebel leaders believes that an alliance with the Covenant is their best hope for gaining independence from the unified Earth government. To further their plans, the rebels have sent a sleeper cell to sabotage the UNSC counterattack—and to ensure that John 117 and the Spartans never return from battle... The New York Times bestselling series Silent Storm A MasterChef novel by Troy Denning New York Times bestselling author It's a desperate mission, there's no denying that. But the UNSC needs time to develop effective countermeasures against Covenant technology, and your job... is to buy that time. You need to make the alien leaders afraid of us. You need to convince them that the humans are crazy, that any time the Covenant fleet exceeds its support or fails to reinforce His progress; we'll find a way to make him pay. Troy Denning is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over 40 novels, including Halo: Shadows of the Reach, Halo: Vanishing, Halo: Silent Storm, Halo: Retribution, Halo: Last Light, a dozen Star Wars novels, Dark Sun: Continuation of the Prism Pintad series, and several of the bestselling Forgotten Realms novels. He is also a former game designer and editor living in western Wisconsin.