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The Slab (Gears of War #5) Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages

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Title	:	The Slab (Gears of War #5)
Author	:	Karen Traviss
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2012 by Gallery Books (first published May 1st 2012)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Games. Video Games. Sports and Games. Gaming. Science Fiction Fantasy

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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.

 “Adam, you knew this day would come.”

It was a familiar voice: silky, imperial, polished, and utterly human.

“Hello, Myrrah.” Adam Fenix found himself thinking of the terrible Locust food again. “You got my message, then.”

“And how right you were. We do need you. And we shall take you. I hope you’re not planning anything foolish. You have responsibilities, Adam.”

It would be a living death. The Locust Queen would never release him, even if he developed a countermeasure. But he didn’t deserve any better.

“I also have my service pistol.”

“And I can take your son at any time.”

He had the measure of her, then, and she had his. “You leave Marcus out of this. It’s a condition.” He opened the desk drawer and took out the handgun, a 9mm officer’s weapon. It made a distinctive clunk on the wooden desktop as he slammed it down. “If anything happens to him, I don’t care what happens to the rest of Sera.”

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ISBN:	1439184070 (ISBN13: 9781439184073)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Gears of War #5

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This was not what I was expecting from a book based on a big dumb but fun video game series. It was a great read. The story revolves around the events leading up and during Marcus Fenix's ( Main character from game series) stay at the lovely little prison nicknamed The Slab. This book is easily the best video game tie-in book I have read and there are a few decent ones (and one truly awful one, Tomb Raider and The Ten Thousand Immortals) that I have read. Even the narrative of the book is



If you enjoy this series and Karen Traviss' writing, then you will thoroughly enjoy this read. My only complaint is that it was the last book in the series! i would love to read more about this world, including the stories that took place in the games, that are not written about. Also having this in the beginning of the series would have made much more sense. Traviss' character exploration is great and even the side characters are engaging. Definitley recommend this book!

My favorite of the Gears franchise! I loved filling in Marcus' backstory. He was (and still is) the most mysterious of all the Gears characters. Even though this book is about him, it's never told from his point of view. And still, everything revolves around him. In that way, we get to know him a little better. We learn how he reacts to what's around him, and we learn what really drives him.It was the perfect lead up to GoW 1. It even mingled some of the VG dialogue with the book at the end,

This book is a prequal. It tells the story of how Marcus was/why was court-martialed. It has Traviss' typical character development skills at work. Overall I enjoyed it but it contained slightly less action than normal. The author was also contrained by the timeframe she had to place the story in so the characters could only progress and mature so much because this story had to fit inbetween two others. The prison life part was ok, it seemed to be lacking something. Maybe because most of the

The slab was a fun read and a look into life when Marcus was in the slab. Overall plot and characters was still well done and had new persons and old.

When Gears of War first starts Marcus Fenix is in a prison cell, and we don't really know too much about why he's there. This book explains everything leading up to the start of the first game, why he's there, what he's been doing, and everything else that's been going on around him. While it is a prequel, the book also does make mention of some things that aren't revealed until Gears of War 3, so you should probably have played that before reading this.All of the Gears of War novels have been