Halo: The Fall of Reach

By: Eric Nylund

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

The New York Times bestselling origin story of the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!

The 26th century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth’s system to hundreds of planets that colonists now call home. But the United Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command is struggling to control this vast empire. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething colonial insurrections from exploding into a full-blown interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope. At the Office of Naval Intelligence, Dr. Catherine Halsey has been hard at work on a top-secret program that could bring an end to the conflict…and it starts with seventy-five children, among them a six-year-old boy named John. And Halsey could never guess that this child will eventually become the final hope against an even greater peril engulfing the galaxy—the inexorable confrontation with a theocratic military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant.

This is the electrifying origin story of Spartan John-117—the Master Chief—and of his legendary, unstoppable heroism in leading the resistance against humanity’s possible extinction.

Couldn’t properly pronounce Mjolnir

Enjoyed the book
The space combat in ships can get a little dry and there’s a lot of it but I thoroughly enjoyed the telling of Johns story and how he became the soldier he appears as in the games

Reader couldn’t pronounce mjolnir properly and that made me cringe

Great for all readers!

This book is absolutely fantastic! It's a good read for any reader of any genre! Whether it's sci-fi, gaming, or a great fictional story, this series has it all!

Just what you'd expect from a HALO book

It was a good, not great read. If you're a Halo fan , like myself, its fun .

I'm definitely getting the rest of the series

I gave performance 3 stars because sometimes the reader speaks at different volumes as if he's moving away from the mic or it's mixed incorrectly. Still does a great job.
I play the games, so this was on my to read list for a while.

sci-fi brilliance

Halo Combat Evolved the video game starts immeditly as the book ends! love this book!