| | |  | Books | Home » » The Flood (Halo #2) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind’s very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait.
As the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the carnage with the battle’s only human survivors—Captain Keyes, his crew of a few hundred Marines, and the last remaining SPARTAN super-soldier, the Master Chief.
With the cruiser’s artificial intelligence, Cortana, concealed in his battle armor, the Master Chief crash lands on Halo in the midst of a massive Covenant occupation. Curiously, the alien soldiers appear to be searching for something hidden on the ring. Built by a long-dead race, Halo harbors many deadly secrets, but one overshadows them all. Now the Master Chief must lead the scattered troops in a brutal race to unravel Halo’s darkest mystery—and unleash its greatest source of power. . . .
This novel is based on a Mature-rated video game.
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• ISBN13: 9780345459213
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| William C. Dietz | | Mass Market Paperback:
| 352 pages | | Publisher:
| Del Rey | | Publication Date:
| April 01, 2003 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0345459210 | | Package Length:
| 6.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 135 reviews |
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 Halo - The FloodMay 03, 2010
This Halo novel covers the time period of the actual gameplay covered in the first Halo game. But the novel tells so much more about the other heros involved in this epic story. The Halo universe, games and novels, tells one of the top 5 greatest sci-fi stories of all time, in quality and quantity. This is a must have for TRUE Halo fans, and simply a really good sci-fi novel for those that aren't. This novel and all of the others in the Halo universe are fantasically written and are very easy reads. Each novel tells a truly awesome story and blends the action, drama, and even comedy very well. Kudos to this author and the others that have contributed to this amazing tale. I hope the Halo franchise and universe continue to evolve for a long long time.
Great BookFeb 28, 2010
If you love the games, and like to read you have to read this book along with the rest of the serious as I did, as I was reading I could picture every character and place in my head and when I was done I had to play the games again LOL
 OK Companion Book to Halo GameJan 24, 2010
"The Flood" is the second book in the Halo series, following the much better Halo prequel The Fall of Reach (Halo, Bk. 1). Since this book has to follow the plot line of the game, the author (William C. Dietz) was somewhat obliged to add a lot of the repetitive sequences that are part of the game but unfortunately significantly slows down the book.
All of that being said, I highly recommend that you play the game all of the way through before reading this book to avoid spoiling the surprises in the game.
No spoilers from me, the plot again centers on the super soldier "Master Chief" (the last surviving member of the Spartan II program) and the Artificial Intelligence Cortana, as they battle the Covenant and "other" enemies on the artificial Halo world. One of the more interesting aspects of book is a sub-plot that follows a Covenant Elite officer, giving us insight into the workings of their odd hierarchy. The book is almost worth reading for this alone.
While not great, it is a must read if you are planning on going through the series. The sequel is First Strike (Halo #3), which sets up Halo 2.
CFH
 Very weak compared to the Fall of ReachJan 20, 2010
Compared to The Fall of Reach, this was a pretty bad book. It did add a bit of light to what happened between some of the levels, and on parts of Halo where other people landed, but even those parts were mostly in the same style as game play. The covenant were also portrayed as a lot weaker here, with almost no mystery about them. How can a group of grunt marines take over a covenant cruiser, when in the first book only a party of Spartans could barely land on a severely disabled one with great loss of life? How can an ODST captain, with no flight training fly that thing? How did stranded humans learn perfectly how to operate such complicated covenant machinery, when in the first book humans knew almost nothing about this mysterious foe? Why would an assassination party for Master Chief consist of a single Elite on a shade gun with a few supporting grunts, when such a situation had never phased him before. Lot of unnecessary detail from the most repetitions Library level was retained, but the most interesting fight (the massive Flood assault, just before you recover the index) of that level was omitted. The emotional turmoil of a conscripted child soldier, which was such a compelling part of the first book, was all gone, and John 117 now felt like a robotic protagonist. Why did they mention nothing about how these people felt after having seen Reach just fall, and barely escape the battle? I actually listened to the audio version of this, and it is made doubly worse because the person doing that irritatingly yelled into the microphone all the time, when there is supposed to be a loud Boom, or when someone is supposed to shout something.
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Easy buyJan 11, 2010
I had no problem receiving this book. It was shipped on time, and was received days before it was supposed to, Thanks alot
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