New Releases by Karen Traviss

The Clone Wars are over, but for those with reason to run from the new galactic Empire, the battle to survive has only just begun. . . . The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos-the galaxy''s finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango Fett-find themselves on opposing sides and in very different armor. Some have deserted and fled to Mandalore with the mercenaries, renegade clone troopers, and rogue Jedi who make up Kal Skirata''s ragtag resistance to Imperial occupation. Others-including men from Delta and Omega squads-now serve as Imperial Commandos, a black ops unit within Vader''s own 501st Legion, tasked to hunt down fugitive Jedi and clone deserters. For Darman, grieving for his Jedi wife and separated from his son, it''s an agonizing test of loyalty. But he''s not the only one who''ll be forced to test the ties of brotherhood. On Mandalore, clone deserters and the planet''s own natives, who have no love for the Jedi, will have their most cherished beliefs challenged. In the savage new galactic order, old feuds may have to be set aside to unite against a far bigger threat, and nobody can take old loyalties for granted.

As the Pendulum Wars rage on between the Coalition of Ordered Governments and the Union of Independent Republics, Marcus Fenix and his right-hand man Dominic Santiago are deployed on their first military tour and must endure the harsh reality of battle, loss, and the waning hope of victory. In the "Dirty Little Secrets" miniseries, follow Marcus Fenix and the rest of Delta Squad as they fight to defend the last of humanity. Leading up to the events of Gears of War 3, Delta Squad must team up with their old Gorasni foes to protect the residents of Vectes from marauding bands of Stranded and concealed pockets of Locusts. Meanwhile, Adam Fenix and ex-Chairman Prescott secretly conspire in order to destroy the Lambent threat before they wipe out all life on Sera. Collects issues #14-24 of the DC Comics series.

Half the world is a wasteland: the other half is on borrowed time. The West has been devastated by epidemics, bio-terrorism, war, and famine. Asia has shut its borders to keep the threats at bay, and some with power and influence have already abandoned Earth. Now an escape route a century in the making - the Nomad mission - finally offers hope to a small town and a secret research centre hidden in a rural American backwater. Shrouded in lies and concealed even from the research centre''s staff, Nomad is about to fulfil its long-dead founder''s vision of preserving the best of humanity to forge a new future. But who decides who''s worthy? The mission is now in the hands of a unique AI called Solomon, and an encounter with a band of military veterans reshapes his plans for mankind''s future after the arrival of a scientist with a grudge threatens the whole mission. Don''t miss this breathtaking new series from New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss as she explores the dramatic origins of Jason Anspach & Nick Cole''s GALAXY''S EDGE universe.

The first novel of the Kilo-Five Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo! 2553. The theocratic military alliance known as the Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war with humanity that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and its colonies. For the first time in thirty years, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting has stopped, the war is far from over: it’s just gone underground. The United Nations Space Command’s feared and secretive Office of Naval Intelligence recruits Kilo-Five—a clandestine team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, a Spartan super-soldier, and a diabolical AI—to accelerate the insurrection within the Covenant’s warrior species, the Sangheili, even as their notable defector-turned-leader Thel ‘Vadam—the Arbiter—struggles to stave off civil war among his divided people. Across the galaxy, a woman thought to have died in the Covenant attack on the planet Reach is actually very much alive. Chief scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey broke every law in the book to create the Spartan program, and now she’s broken some more rules to save them. Marooned with Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez and a Spartan team in a Forerunner slipspace bubble hidden in the destroyed planet Onyx, Halsey finds that this place has been guarding an ancient secret—a treasure trove of Forerunner technology that will change everything for the UNSC and mankind. As Kilo-Five joins the hunt for Halsey, humanity’s violent past begins to catch up with all of them as the disgruntled colony Venezia has been biding its time to strike at Earth…and its most dangerous terrorist has an old, painful link with both Halsey and Kilo-Five that will test everyone’s loyalty to the limit.

Die Elite der Klonkrieger im Undercover-Einsatz! Als die Klonkriege weiter durch die Galaxie toben, müssen die effektivsten Krieger der Republik plötzlich feststellen, dass die Separatisten nicht ihr einziger Feind sind - und bei Weitem nicht der schlimmste. Basierend auf dem Videogame-Hit von Electronic Arts.

Der zweite Einsatz des Klonkrieger Elite-Kommandos! Wo reguläre Klonkrieger-Truppen nicht ausreichen, kommen sie zum Einsatz: Die Republic Commandos. Kleine schlagkräftige Eliteeinheiten, die normalerweise weit hinter den feindlichen Linien operieren. Doch diesmal hat sich das Szenario geändert. Ihr Einsatzort ist Triple Zero. Die Koordinaten der republikanischen Heimatwelt Corouscant! Der zweite Streich der legendären Republic Commandos. Basierend auf dem Action-Knaller von Activision!

Originally published as G. I. Joe volume 4 issues #1-8.

Die Republic Commandos waren die legendäre Eliteeinheit der Klonarmee. Einige sind desertiert und nach Mandalore geflohen, wo sie sich mit Söldnern, abtrünnigen Klonsoldaten und untergetauchten Jedi zum Widerstand gegen das Imperium rüsten. Andere hingegen - darunter Soldaten der Delta und Omega Squad - dienen nun als Imperial Commandos und bilden eine Sondereinheit innerhalb Darth Vaders Leibgarde.

L''équipe Kilo-Five, forces spéciales du SRN, est de nouveau chargée d''une mission d''une importance capitale : empêcher les Élites, autrefois dirigeants militaires du Covenant, de se regrouper et menacer à nouveau l''humanité. Mais ce qui devait n''être qu''une opération de routine va se transformer en tentative désespérée d''extraire un de leurs coéquipiers d''une guerre civile extraterrestre.

Même si l''Alliance Covenante n''est plus, la guerre de l''humanité est loin d''être finie... Après une guerre meurtrière contre les humains, l''Alliance Covenante a fini par voler en éclats ; la paix semble possible. Mais la guerre n''est pas terminée, elle n''est que plus sournoise. L''ONI forme Kilo-5, une équipe composée de Helljumpers, d''un Spartan et d''une IA, pour stimuler l''insurrection des Sangheilis, alors que l''Arbiter, chef d''un peuple Covenant déboussolé, cherche à empêcher une guerre civile. A l''autre bout de la galaxie, le docteur Catherine Halsey, la conceptrice controversée des Spartans officiellement décédée, tente de les sauver. Coincée avec l''adjudant-chef Mendez et quelques Spartans au coeur d''Onyx, elle découvre des traces forerunners qui bouleverseront l''humanité.

"Suggested for mature readers"--Page 4 of verso.

Cobra has become an international peacekeeping force--and the future of G.I. Joe looks bleak. Scarlett leads what''s left of America''s ultimate fighting force--but will she be able to keep the team together? Real-world action and politics collide--and nothing will be the same.

GO BEHIND THE HIT GAME WITH BEST-SELLING NOVELIST KAREN TRAVISS! Before Batman steps into the madness that is Arkham City, a different madness has gripped Gotham. With the city’s slums cleared out to make room for the mega-criminals of Arkham, ordinary crime is running rampant. And only one man is willing to do whatever it takes to rescue Gotham from itself. His name is the Bookbinder. And he’s already responsible for one death. Now, Batman has to figure out the identity of Gotham’s mysterious new vigilante, while at the same time coming closer to finding out the secrets of Arkham City. But with innocent lives on the line, will the Dark Knight Detective be able to solve either mystery before time runs out? Writer Karen Traviss (City of Pearl, Halo: Glasslands) teams with artists including CHRISTIAN DUCE (Ides of Blood), Riccardo Burchielli (DMZ), Federico Dallocchio (SUICIDE SQUAD) and Tony Shasteen (THE VAMPIRE DIARIES) to pit Batman against a higher class of criminal!

The second installment in a new Halo trilogy and the riveting sequel to the "New York Times" bestseller "Halo: Glasslands, " based on the enormously popular game.

Following the sinking of the Jacinto at the conclusion of Volume 2,the Gears have fled to the island of Vectes where they struggle to defend thelast remnants of humankind from The Stranded and a new menace, The Lambent- a deadly, mutating lifeform.

Die New York Times-Bestsellerautorin, Drehbuchschreiberin und Comic-Autorin KAREN TRAVISS erhielt vor allem für ihre preisno minierte Wess''har- Romanserie viel positives Kritikerecho. Mit ihren Arbeiten zu Star Wars, Gears of War und Halo landet sie regelmässig auf den internationalen Bestsellerlisten. Die ehemalige Verteidigungskorrespondentin und TV- und Zeitungsjournalistin lebt und arbeitet in England. Die New York Times-Bestsellerautorin, Drehbuchschreiberin und Comic-Autorin KAREN TRAVISS erhielt vor allem für ihre preisno minierte Wess''har- Romanserie viel positives Kritikerecho. Mit ihren Arbeiten zu Star Wars, Gears of War und Halo landet sie regelmässig auf den internationalen Bestsellerlisten. Die ehemalige Verteidigungskorrespondentin und TV- und Zeitungsjournalistin lebt und arbeitet in England.

An original novel based on the groundbreaking and award-winning military sci-fi-action video game series Gears of War—written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss! MARCUS FENIX. WAR HERO. LOYAL SON. TRAITOR. Ten years after Emergence Day, as the Locust Horde advances on humanity’s last defended area—Ephyra—in a bloody war that has seen billions die, Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders and abandons his post during a critical battle in a bid to rescue his father, weapons scientist Adam Fenix. But Adam is buried in the rubble during a ferocious assault on the Fenix mansion, and Ephyra falls to the enemy. Marcus, grieving for a father everyone believes is dead, is court-martialed for dereliction of duty and sentenced to forty years in the Coalition of Ordered Government’s brutal maximum security prison, known simply as the Slab. But Adam is very much alive, snatched from the destruction by the elite Onyx Guard on Chairman Richard Prescott’s orders. He’s now a long way from home and in a prison of his own—a COG doomsday bunker on the tropical island of Azura, a place hidden from the rest of Sera since the Pendulum Wars. His own guilty secret has been exposed: Adam knew the Locust existed deep below the surface of Sera long before Emergence Day, and were being driven from their tunnels by a lethal parasite known as the Lambent. Now he has to find a way to destroy the Lambent while the dwindling COG forces fight to hold back a growing Locust army that’s threatening to overrun the city. As Adam struggles to find redemption in his comfortable island jail, Marcus seeks his own atonement in the squalid, closed world within the Slab’s granite walls. While Dom Santiago and Anya Stroud fight to get him released, ready to make any sacrifice to free him, Marcus gradually finds unexpected kinship among Sera’s most dangerous criminals—and a way to carry on his personal war against the Locust.

Wenn die Dunkelheit das Licht verdrängt, wird eine Heldin geboren Jacen Solo wollte seine Familie schützen und der Galaxis Frieden und Sicherheit bringen – doch stattdessen ist aus ihm ein Sith-Lord und tyrannischer Herrscher geworden. Doch seine Schwester Jaina glaubt eine Möglichkeit gefunden zu haben, wie sie ihn noch aufhalten könnte – auch wenn das bedeutet, sich mit einem alten Feind zu verbünden ...

Dem Bösen verfallen! Die Rebellion innerhalb der Neuen Republik droht die Galaxis zu zerreißen. Doch Jacen Solo, inzwischen ein vollendeter Meister der Macht, hat eigene Pläne, um der Welt Frieden und Ordnung zurückzubringen. Gelenkt von seinem Sith-Mentor Lumiya beschreitet er den Weg seines Großvaters – Darth Vader!

Die Wahrheit des Sternenkrieges! Anakin Skywalkers Jedi-Padawan Ahsoka sollte eigentlich an einer Übung teilnehmen, doch der Notruf eines Jedimeisters lässt das Manöver unwichtig erscheinen. Sofort bricht Ahsoka mit einem Trupp junger Klonkrieger auf, um einen Agenten der Republik zu befreien. Der Auftrag wird beinahe zum Fiasko und Ahsoka muss erkennen, dass dem Krieg nicht nur Soldaten und Droiden zum Opfer fallen ... Wo die animierte Fernsehserie endete, beginnen die wahren Abenteuer erst!

The Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and her colonies. For the first time in decades, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting''s stopped, the war is far from over: it''s just gone underground. The UNSC''s feared and secretive Office of Naval Intelligence recruits Kilo-Five, a team of ODSTs, a Spartan, and a diabolical AI to accelerate the Sangheili insurrection. Meanwhile, the Arbiter, the defector turned leader of a broken Covenant, struggles to stave off civil war among his divided people. Across the galaxy, a woman thought to have died on Reach is actually very much alive. Chief scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey broke every law in the book to create the Spartans, and now she''s broken some more to save them. Marooned with Chief Mendez and a Spartan team in a Forerunner slipspace bubble hidden in the destroyed planet Onyx, she finds that the shield world has been guarding an ancient secret - a treasure trove of Forerunner technology that will change everything for the UNSC and mankind. As Kilo-Five joins the hunt for Halsey, humanity''s violent past begins to catch up with all of them as disgruntled colony Venezia has been biding its time to strike at Earth, and its most dangerous terrorist has an old, painful link with both Halsey and Kilo-Five that will test everyone''s loyalty to the limit.

La Guerre des Clones est terminée. Seulement, pour ceux qui ont toutes les raisons de fuir le nouvel Empire galactique, la lutte pour la survie ne fait que commencer... Les anciens commandos de la République déchue sont dispersés. Cette élite de soldats clonés d''après Jango Fett se retrouve dans des camps opposés. Certains ont déserté pour devenir mercenaires mandaloriens sous l''égide de Kal Skirata, leur père spirituel. D''autres, restés au sein de la jeune 501e Légion du Seigneur Vador, pourchassent sans répit Jedi survivants, opposants au régime et anciens frères mutins. Le clone Darman est ainsi écartelé entre loyauté du sang et devoir. Mais il n''est pas le seul dont les convictions soient ébranlées. Dans le refuge de Skirata affluent bientôt de nouveaux et mystérieux clandestins qui réveillent suspicion et haine chez les clones dissidents et les Mandaloriens...

Understand what a world had to do to survive. When the Locust Horde burst from the ground fifteen years ago to slaughter the human population of Sera, mankind began a desperate war against extinction. Now after a decade and a half of bloody fighting, and with billions dead, the survivors—the Gears of the Coalition of Ordered Governments, along with a small band of civilians—have been forced to destroy their own cities and sacrifice their entire civilization to halt the Locust advance. The last-ditch measures have succeeded, but at an enormous cost: the survivors have been reduced to a handful of refugees. Escaping to a haven on the remote island of Vectes, they begin the heartbreaking task of rebuilding their devastated world. For a while, there’s hope . . . making peace with old enemies, and once again planning for the future. But the short respite is shattered when Vectes comes under siege from an even deadlier force than the Locust—the Lambent, a hideous and constantly mutating life-form that destroys everything in its path. As the Lambent’s relentless assault spreads from the mainland to the island, the refugees finally understand what drove the Locust from their underground warrens and sparked the global war. While Marcus Fenix and the Gears struggle to hold back the invasion, the Coalition faces a stark choice—fight this new enemy to the last human, or flee to the wastelands to take their chances and live like the human pariahs known as the Stranded . . . even as Coalition chairman Richard Prescott still guards one last, terrible secret about the Locust, the Lambent, and the future of mankind. . . .