Mass Effect: Retribution Novel Announced

BioWare has officially taken the wraps off of Mass Effect: Retribution, Drew Karpyshyn’s next novel to be set in the company’s sci-fi universe. Amazon currently has it down for a July 27th release, so here’s a brief description to hold you over until then:

Retribution is set in the universe fans know well from the video game and novel series one in which humanity has explored the very farthest reaches of the universe, only to discover the ruthless Reapers, a race bent on extinguishing all organic life. One man is bent on discovering the Reapers’ secrets, the mysterious Illusive Man, the leader of a pro-human, black ops group, Cerberus. And he’s devised the perfect plan: implant a human subject with Reaper technology in order to study the enemy.

He also has the perfect test subject Paul Grayson, an ex-Cerberus operative. Grayson betrayed Cerberus in order to save his daughter. So when Grayson is kidnapped and made the subject of Cerberus’ evil experiments, the Illusive Man will finally have his revenge…