Halo: Bad Blood

Halo: Bad Blood is a print novel by Matt Forbeck, released on June 26, 2018.

Plot synopsis
In a report for the Office of Naval Intelligence, Edward Buck reflects on the events that transpired after Michael Crespo betrayed him and Kojo Agu in Operation: COALPEPPER on Talitsa: his recruitment on Fireteam Osiris, his missions with them on Kamchatka, Meridian, and Sanghelios, and rescuing Blue Team from Cortana's grasp on Genesis. After saving them, both Fireteam Osiris and Blue Team fought against several armigers until they found India 127, a D79-TC Pelican that crash-landed on Genesis; Linda-058 manage to hold the armigers long enough to allow both teams aboard the Pelican, extract Linda, and allowing 031 Exuberant Witness to open an Slipspace portal to transport both teams to Sanghelios. Their Pelican exit near Sunaion, and regroup with Thel 'Vadam's Swords of Sanghelios, Spartan Sarah Palmer and Doctor Catherine Halsey on Nuusra. Both teams are informed that one of Sanghelios's hemispheres was completely shutdown by a Guardian Custode inmediately after Thel's victory against Jul 'Mdama's Covenant, and that same Guardian is enforcing Cortana's law on the planet's other hemisphere after the Sangheili's negative to subjugate before the Created. Halsey also informs them the managed to escape from Earth, one of the first Cortana's objetives, and the ship will arrive to the system to extract them the next day. Thel 'Vadam invites both teams to a victory feast, in which John-117 talks alone with Halsey, and share some stories with Thel. At the next day, both teams, Palmer, and Halsey departs to the Infinity, with Thel wishing them luck in the upcoming battle against the Created.