Halo: Oblivion: A Master Chief Story

Troy Denning

Sep 2019 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!

2526. It has been more than a year since humanity first encountered the hostile military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant, and several weeks after the United Nations Space Command’s devastating counterattack of Operation: SILENT STORM was deemed an overwhelming success. The UNSC has put its faith in the hands of the Spartans, led by the legendary Master Chief, John-117: enhanced super-soldiers raised and trained from childhood via a clandestine black ops project to be living weapons. But the Covenant—enraged and fearful of their enemy’s unexpected strategies and prowess—is not taking its recent defeat lightly, and is now fully determined to eradicate humanity from existence, brutally overrunning the ill-fated planets of the Outer Colonies faster than retreats can be ordered.

If the UNSC has any chance of stemming the tide of the war, the Master Chief and Blue Team must drop onto an empty, hellish world in order to capture a disabled Covenant frigate filled with valuable technology. It has all the makings of a trap, but the bait is far too tempting to ignore—and this tantalizing prize is being offered by a disgraced and vengeful Covenant fleetmaster, whose sole opportunity for redemption lies in extinguishing humanity’s only hope of survival…

Ratings and reviews

Halo is the best franchise out of them all. I personally have not played the games much but the books give such an amazing insight to all sides of the War. It compliments the games very well compared to many other books of similar stature. I cannot recommend these books enough

I am a big Halo reader not to mention a Troy Denning fan, and i have read almost all the novels in the Halo universe....but this one was the worse! It was long, little action, poor character development, I felt like i was reading a textbook rather than a novel. Whenever you use the Master Chief in a novel it had better be good!...but how could Troy Denning screw this up so profoundly. The best thing was the ending!

Excellent book providing new history of the Master Chief. All new characters, new locations, all without providing new technology that would ruin the continuity of the Haloverse

About the author

Troy Denning is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels, including Halo: Divine Wind, Halo: Shadows of Reach, Halo: Oblivion, Halo: Silent Storm, Halo: Retribution, Halo: Last Light, a dozen Star Wars novels, the Dark Sun: Prism Pentad series, and many bestselling Forgotten Realms novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in western Wisconsin.