It also sounds like Alien: Covenant - Origins is going to give us a lot of perspective on some of the new characters we were introduced to in the latest Alien movie, which is what novels like this are very good for. Assuming Alien: Covenant's lackluster box office doesn't hamper his plans for other installments. One might have thought that an Alien: Covenant prequel novel would have explored what happened with David and Shaw on their journey after the events of Prometheus, but it looks like Ridley Scott may have some more plans for them on screen in the future. So this sounds like some pretty hardcore insider baseball for Alien fans.

Is the conspiracy the product of corporate espionage, or is it something even more sinister? While Captain Jacob Branson and his wife Daniels prepare the ship, Security chief Dan Lopé signs a key member of his team, and together they seek to stop the technologically advanced saboteurs before anyone else is killed, and the ship itself is destroyed in orbit.' The threat reaches all the way up to Hideo Yutani, the head of the newly merged Weyland-Yutani Corporation, when his daughter is kidnapped. Yet the perpetrators remain hidden behind a veil of secrecy. 'As the colony ship Covenant prepares for launch, and the final members of the crew are chosen, a series of violent events reveal a conspiracy to sabotage the launch.

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