ok well I love the halo books and have read them each about 4 times now but I read that this book is about the Gray team and that it takes place DURING the games...? I'm a little confused because if you go through all the books and do the math you find out that there starts out with 33 Spartans after they are augmented but then they lose Sam when they get their first suits and Kurt goes MIA to train the Spartan IIIs so that only leaves 31 left. Then during The Fall of Reach and The First Strike you find out that 3 Spartans go on the Space Station to take care of the Nav comp. which leave 28 left and it makes mention that Fred has 26 Spartans in his squad when he goes to the ground battle which leaves only 1 Spartan left out there some where that was never apart of the original mission to steal a covenant ship... so unless this book takes place BEFORE the actual fall of Reach then I don't understand how it could be possible... I mean I thought about after wards when Fred, Will, and Linda get back to earth after their rescue in The First Strike being the Gray Team but then that really wouldn't make sense because The Ghosts of Onyx covers their story... so please, if anyone could help me figure this out then could you please do so?