HALO Contact Harvest Author:Joseph Staten The New York Times bestseller?part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! — 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But humanity has unknowingly trespassed on holy ground?straying into the path of the aggressive, theocratic empire known as the Covenant... more ». What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter soon catapults all of mankind into a struggle for its very existence.
But humanity is also currently locked in a bitter civil war of its own: the Insurrection. With resources strained to the breaking point, the ultimate survival of Harvest?s citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one will stand above the rest?a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson....« less