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  • ISBN: 0230767095
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Karen Traviss
  • Subcategory: Classics
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (October 2, 2012)
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  • Rating: 4.4
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Halo: The Thursday War, . Part of Halo series by Karen Traviss. Venezia can wait, after al : it’s been a terrorist haven since before the Covenant War, and it’s not going anywhere.

Halo: The Thursday War, . Besides, Mike Spenser is there. A safe pair of hands, our Mike.

Home Karen Traviss Halo: The Thursday Wa. lt; If he still lives, then he may return from exile. He only knows war. He tried to fight the Flood. He tried to destroy the humans.

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Instead, The Thursday War picks up where Glasslands left off, with a ragtag bunch of marines, a Spartan, a civilian professor and a Naval Intelligence officer. All of them serve in a top secret Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) group doing its best to make sure war between humans and the Sangheili (AKA Halo's Elites) is never allowed to happen again. They do this by any means necessary, even if it means deceiving the Sangheili into a civil war of their own.

Halo: The Thursday War. Author : Karen Traviss. Welcome to humanity’s new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. Genres : Science Fiction. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI’s black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation―keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection―turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of an alien civil war. But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five.

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Halo: The Thursday War, Traviss Karen. Варианты приобретения Автор: Traviss, Karen Название: Star Wars(r) Legacy of the Force: Revelation ISBN: 034547757X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345477576 Издательство: Random House. Варианты приобретения. Кол-во: о цене Наличие: Отсутствует.

The Thursday War is the followup to Glasslands and the second book in the Kilo 5 trilogy. It picks up pretty much where the first left off and continues the story of Captain Osman and her ONI team

Halo: The Thursday War. (Halo. The Thursday War is the followup to Glasslands and the second book in the Kilo 5 trilogy. It picks up pretty much where the first left off and continues the story of Captain Osman and her ONI team. It's a worthy followup but not as enjoyable to me as the original, perhaps because of the lack of the other Spartan 2s and 3s (Naomi is still there). I can see where Karen Traviss would want to develop her own characters as opposed to the ones that have come before, but we like them because they we've The Thursday War is the followup to Glasslands and the second book in the Kilo 5 trilogy.

Mass Market Paperbound. The second book of the Glasslands trilogy, another action packed adventure in the vast universe of the Halo game where the Human-Covenant War rages on. Welcome to humanity's new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI's black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. 4 31 5 Author: Karen Traviss Narrator: Euan Morton

Halo: The Thursday War. 4 31 5 Author: Karen Traviss Narrator: Euan Morton. The second novel of the Kilo-Five Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss-part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! 2553. Welcome to humanity’s new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen

Welcome to humanity's new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI's black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation?keeping the Elites busy with their own insurrection?turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of an alien civil war. But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again surfacing on one of the worlds that survived the war against the Covenant, and the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan-010. Meanwhile, the treasure trove of Forerunner technology recovered from the shield world of Onyx is being put to work while a kidnapped Elite plots vengeance on the humans he fears will bring his people to the brink of destruction.
Reviews about HALO: The Thursday War (7):
Ce
This story follows kilo-5 and the aftermath of the human covenant war. I really believe Karen Traviss did outstanding at these books. She depicts a side of the war no one would expect. You have to examine all sides of the war to really understand them. This book supplements you with information leading up to Halo 4 as well. I do miss the books starring the master chief, but in this book you get to see other protagonists and planets such as the sanghelei home world. ONI is a big player in the halo universe and now you get to go inside. Many new characters emerge. Keep up with halo and buy this trilogy of books!
Gavinrage
I hadn't been exposed to Karen Traviss' work prior to her Halo books, but I've been very pleased with them so far. After listenting to the Audible version of the first in Traviss' Halo trilogy, Glasslands, I immediately purchased The Thursday War. If you're a fan of Halo novels, I think you will be very happy with it. It breathes life into the sorts of characters we don't often hear about in Halo lore, in particular the boots-on-the-ground grunts that do most of the fighting in the galaxy. Yes, there are Spartans (a la Master Chief), but they aren't the focus of the story.

Instead, The Thursday War picks up where Glasslands left off, with a ragtag bunch of marines, a Spartan, a civilian professor and a Naval Intelligence officer. All of them serve in a top secret Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) group doing its best to make sure war between humans and the Sangheili (AKA Halo's Elites) is never allowed to happen again. They do this by any means necessary, even if it means deceiving the Sangheili into a civil war of their own.

What I enjoy most about these novels is the focus on just how devious ONI can be. Imagine a CIA thriller in a sci-fi setting and you have a good idea of what to expect. She hasn't appeared in any of the games, but Admiral Margaret Parangosky, head of ONI, might now be my favorite character in the Halo universe.

Coming from someone who has devoured everything Halo since the very first game came out, that says a lot.
Goktilar
This book showed improvement from the first book in the kilo 5 trilogy. I could do with less calling Halsey names, but at least there was less than the first book. Also it seems like the author has finally grown more comfortable with the characters and more able to avoid awkward moments in the writing, where she stumbled in the writing. In the first book there were two moments where Traviss could have taken more time to realistically write a seen out, but this time she didn't have that kind of hiccup at all. But she could still improve.
Raelin
This was an incredible read and gives so much insight into
the Elite civil war and then the mention of the Didact a being
that wanted nothing to do with humanity's distraction and yet
was exiled for not following orders and so humanity was devolved
to the prehistoric state, not remembering who they were before.
This makes me want to read the Forerunner novels now. Any self
respecting Halo fan should read this novel and all the ones that
follow.
Silly Dog
There's not much to say about this: it's very "Tom Clancy in space" to me. There's a lot of double-dealing, conspiracy, and sudden twists. It's not bad because of that, but I have to say that I'm not quite a big of fan of Traviss' contributions as I was Nylund's and other author's earlier works, but part of that relates to a significant decline in action.

That said, the first real look into Elite (Sangheili) society the books offer is fantastic, and almost makes the books worth buying by itself.

Edit: I've gone back and re-read the books, the ones that I still have that are intact, at least. I find myself reconsidering Travis' contributions: while I stand by my "Tom Clancy in space" comment, I have to say that it's not nearly as good as what Clancy could have written. One particular failing is Travis' insistence on pounding in moral lessons (except where the icky aliens are concerned), as well as her apparent and utter failure to familiarize herself with the rest of the universe: my personal biggest gripe is that the ODSTs and Naomi (the Spartan) continue to say "sir" where they should say "ma'am". The characters seem bipolar at times: they go from raging about Halsey's suddenly hated actions to plotting **mild spoiler** their own genocide of the Sangheili/Elite race.

I still say that the insight the book offers into Sangheili society makes the series worth reading, but overall I'm quite disappointed by the departure of the technical, much more assured approach of Nylund. Travis spends too much time trying to make her characters human when, in some ways, they're not; most of all, as another reviewer said, she spends far too much time making moral arguments, especially with characters like Parangosky who should, logically, be the ultimate in realpolitik but act more like a repenting sinner; this in a universe where, while under Nylund, had little moral compunction against the Spartan-II program.

I don't regret buying the books, but I do regret how Travis has written them.
Gardataur
My son hated reading until he found these. He was reading on a third grade level in sixth grade, but when he found these, he finally started to enjoy reading, and is now in the 11th grade and reading at near grade level.
Alsalar
For some reason the author really hates the Halsey character. I get that she stole kids and turned them into super soldiers. But the author for some reason felt the need to drag up this part of the Spartan program history that has never really been talked about before and crucify Dr Halsey over it.

Anyway, that part of the story aside, this book was a much better read than Glasslands. I actually had a hard time putting this book down at many points. My only two gripes are as I mentioned before the sudden persecution of Dr. Halsey and this book again ends with no resolution to the main story line.

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