Matthew Stover

Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader are dead. The Empire has been toppled by the triumphant Rebel Alliance, and the New Republic is ascendant. But the struggle against the dark side and the Sith Order is not over. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, and their faithful comrades have had little time to savor victory before being called on to defend the newly liberated galaxy. Powerful remnants of the vanquished Empire, hungry for retaliation, are still at large, committing acts of piracy, terrorism, and wholesale slaughter against the worlds of the fledgling New Republic. The most deadly of these, a ruthless legion of black-armored Stormtroopers, do the brutal bidding of the newly risen warlord Shadowspawn. Striking from a strategically advantageous base on the planet Mindor, they are waging a campaign of plunder and destruction, demolishing order and security across the galaxy-and breeding fears of an Imperial resurgence. Another reign of darkness beneath the boot-heel of Sith despotism is something General Luke Skywalker cannot, and will not, risk.

"The Jedi are keepers of the peace. We are not soldiers." —MACE WINDU Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, senior member of the Jedi Council, skilled diplomat, devastating fighter. Some say he is the deadliest man alive. But he is a man of peace—and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war. Now, following the momentous events climaxing in the Battle of Geonosis, Master Mace Windu must undertake a perilous homecoming to his native world—to defuse a potentially catastrophic crisis for the Republic . . . and to confront a terrifying mystery with dire personal consequences. The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, the homeworld Mace barely remembers, has become a battleground in the increasing hostilities between the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi Council has sent Depa Billaba—Mace's former Padawan and fellow Council member—to Haruun Kal to train the local tribesmen as a guerilla resistance force, to fight against the Separatists who control the planet and its strategic star system with their droid armies. But now the Separatists have pulled back, and Depa has not returned. The only clue to her disappearance is a cryptic recording left at the scene of a brutal massacre: a recording that hints of madness and murder, and the darkness in the jungle . . . a recording in Depa's own voice. Mace Windu trained her. Only he can find her. Only he can learn what has changed her. Only he can stop her. Jedi were never intended to be soldiers. But now they have no choice. Macemust journey alone into the most treacherous jungle in the galaxy—and into his own heritage. He will leave behind the Republic he serves, the civilization he believes in, everything but his passion for peace and his devotion to his former Padawan. And he will learn the terrible price that must be paid, when keepers of the peace are forced to make war. . . .

Tras muchos años de guerra civil, los separatistas han llevado a la castigada República al borde del colapso. En Coruscant, el Senado contempla cómo el Canciller Supremo Palpatine va anulando progresivamente las libertades civiles, buscando así proteger a la República. Yoda, Mace Windu y sus compañeros se oponen al deseo del Canciller de controlar el Consejo Jedi. Y Anakin Skywalker, el Elegido del cual se profetizó traería el equilibrio a la Fuerza, está cada vez más atenazado por el miedo a que muera su amor secreto; la senadora Padmé Amidala.

Por fin llega el momento decisivo de toda la saga de Star Wars"La fuerza es cada vez más oscura, Anakin... Ten cuidado con tus sentimientos."Tras muchos años de guerra civil, los separatistas han llevado a la castigada República al borde del colapso. En Coruscant, el Senado cintempla cómo el Canciller Supremo Palpatine va anulando progresivamente las libertades civiles, buscando así proteger a la República. Yoda, Mace Windu y sus compañeros se oponen al deseo del Canciller de controlar el Consejo Jedi. YAnakin Skywalker, el Elegido del cual se profetizó traería el equilibrio a la Fuerza, está cada vez más atenazado por el miedo a que muera su amor secreto: la senadora Padmé Amidala.La novela de Matthew Stover, basada en el guión de la última y esperada película de la épica saga de Goerge Lucas, rebosa acción y retrata a sus protagonistas con todos los matices de su personalidad rematando de forma redonda esta obra maestra del space opera.

La sed de venganza del lado oscura es eterna. El Imperio ha muerto y ha dado paso a la Nueva República, pero la sed de venganza del lado oscura es eterna. El emperador Palpatine y Darth Vader e

A medida que la lucha se intensifica por toda la galaxia, se prepara el escenario para un peligroso fin de partida: Obi-Wan asume la peligrosa misión de acabar con el temible líder separatista el General Grievous; Palpatine, ansioso por conseguir más poder, influye sutilmente sobre la opinión pública para que se ponga en contra de los Jedi; y un Anakin en conflicto -atormentado por inexplicables visionesse acerca peligrosamente a un cambio de rumbo que puede afectar a la galaxia entera.. Sólo falta que Darth Sidious, cuya sombra es cada vez mayor, le aseste el golpe definitivo a la República... y que ordene a un terrible nuevo Lord Sith: Darth Vader.