Scoundrels: Star Wars [Kindle Edition] Author: Timothy Zahn | Language: English | ISBN:
B008LMD2QI | Format: PDF, EPUB
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To make his biggest score, Han’s ready to take even bigger risks.
But even he can’t do this job solo.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Han Solo should be basking in his moment of glory. After all, the cocky smuggler and captain of the Millennium Falcon just played a key role in the daring raid that destroyed the Death Star and landed the first serious blow to the Empire in its war against the Rebel Alliance. But after losing the reward his heroics earned him, Han’s got nothing to celebrate. Especially since he’s deep in debt to the ruthless crime lord Jabba the Hutt. There’s a bounty on Han’s head—and if he can’t cough up the credits, he’ll surely pay with his hide. The only thing that can save him is a king’s ransom. Or maybe a gangster’s fortune? That’s what a mysterious stranger is offering in exchange for Han’s less-than-legal help with a riskier-than-usual caper. The payoff will be more than enough for Han to settle up with Jabba—and ensure he never has to haggle with the Hutts again.
All he has to do is infiltrate the ultra-fortified stronghold of a Black Sun crime syndicate underboss and crack the galaxy’s most notoriously impregnable safe. It sounds like a job for miracle workers . . . or madmen. So Han assembles a gallery of rogues who are a little of both—including his indispensable sidekick Chewbecca and the cunning Lando Calrissian. If anyone can dodge, deceive, and defeat heavily armed thugs, killer droids, and Imperial agents alike—and pull off the heist of the century—it’s Solo’s scoundrels. But will their crime really pay, or will it cost them the ultimate price?
BONUS: Includes the novella Winner Lose All.
Praise for Scoundrels
“Rapid-fire adventure [that] adds yet another dimension of enjoyment to a rousing galactic romp.”—Library Journal
“Highly entertaining . . . excellent Star Wars . . . There are many twists and turns [and] Zahn manages to find ways to twist them one step further than you’d expect.”—Examiner.com
“[Scoundrels] brings freshness to the franchise.”—USA Today Direct download links available for Scoundrels: Star Wars Epub Free
- File Size: 4852 KB
- Print Length: 464 pages
- Publisher: LucasBooks (January 1, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008LMD2QI
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Obviously, Scoundrels was Timothy Zahn's attempt at combining an Ocean's 11 caper with the Star Wars saga. What I hadn't appreciated before reading the book was just how serious Zahn was about this. There have been several Star Wars books this year that try to break into the espionage/thriller genre, such as Annihilation: Star Wars (The Old Republic) and Mercy Kill: Star Wars (X-Wing), but at the end of the day they feel like rehashed Star Wars. By contrast, Scoundrels is something new. It takes the best of Star Wars with the best of the espionage/thriller genre to create something that really feels fresh.
Here are some of my initial thoughts. Note, I try to keep this review as spoiler free as possible, meaning that I try not to reveal anything critical beyond the first three chapters.
THE PLOT
Perhaps the aspect of the book that I appreciated most is the plot. Basically, Han is hired by a Black Sun victim to break into the Black Sun sector chief's house in order to recover his stolen credits. As we all know, Han is a smuggler, not a burglar, so he recruits 9 conspirators and comes up with a plan to get the credits back (9 plus Han plus the person that hires him = 11. That's not a coincidence). Of course, Han, Chewie, and Lando are part of the team, and we also get Winter and Kell Tainer, but the rest of the gang is new to the Star Wars universe.
Timothy Zahn has written so many Star Wars novels, and done such a consistently excellent job of it, that I'm almost tempted to say, "Another Zahn Star Wars novel. 'Nuff said. Five stars." And reading the book only bolsters that thought. Zahn still has a better handle on the core Star Wars characters than most other writers who dabble in the Expanded Universe (or, it seems at times, George Lucas himself), and, jaded as I have become by the less-than-perfect nature of the prequels and current EU offerings, I cannot pass on any new book by Zahn. And I have yet to be disappointed.
This time around, the novel stars Han Solo, who has just been robbed of the reward he earned saving the Rebels in the original Star Wars film (AKA A New Hope), and is wondering how to earn the money to get Jabba the Hutt off his back. A mysterious stranger approaches him, stating that Han is just the sort of moral, yet decisive, outlaw that he needs in order to retrieve a massive amount of stolen credits that are in the possession of a seemingly philanthropic Villachor. Han assembles a team of mostly new characters to pull off the heist, but things get a bit complicated when it turns out that Villachor is a sector chief for Black Sun (the SW equivalent of the mafia). A Black Sun vigo (essentially the equivalent of a mafia Don) is present, and Imperial Intelligence has undercover agents working to bring down Villachor for their own purposes.
As is typical, Zahn works a character from his classic Thrawn Trilogy into the proceedings. This time, it's Winter, the Alderaanian friend of Princess Leia with a photographic memory. She fits perfectly into a story where, at face value, it seems to make no sense for her to be around.
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