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Humanity faces a new, invisible conflict where stakes are high and silence is deadly. ONI’s elite black‑ops team, Kilo‑Five, is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elite faction—once the military leaders of the Covenant—from regrouping and threatening humanity again. What starts as a routine mission to keep the Elites preoccupied with their own insurrection quickly evolves into a desperate bid to extract one team member from the seething heart of an alien civil war.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Science Fiction/Military Science Fiction
Authors: Karen Traviss
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