just go read it seriously i read in a year or two ago then bungie come out with halo reach teaser so i pick the book up again and even more brilliant then the first time i read it. dont ask people to spoil the story/ending all ill say is that the novel begins with a spartan operation not working out to well aswell as the covenant finding reach and glassing but not fully........................................................ .......... OMG the suspense but seriously go read its when of the best things about halo is the on going story. BELIEVE!