The explosive sequel to "Specter of the Past." As the threat of the gathering Imperial Moffs grows, the fledgling New Republic struggles to consolidate its power. Han, Luke and Leia must prevent the genocidal war being prepared against the Bothans. Meanwhile, the cunning Major Tierce has perpetrated a grand deception--the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn from the dead.

Having landed at the evil scientist Gog's headquarters on the deserted planet Kiva to make sure that his Project Starscream has been destroyed, Zak and Tash find strange shadow creatures and hidden danger.

In the continuing Star Wars series, Princess Lei goes on a rescue mission to recover her children. They were kidnaped by Lord Hethrir, an Empire loyalist who takes them to a camp for enslaved boys and girls. By the author of Dreamsnake.

Timothy Zahn is the master of the Star Wars novel. His trilogy (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command) did almost as much as the movie trilogy's re-release to create new interest in Luke, Leia, and Han Solo. Specter of the Past is the first of a new series, The Hand of Thrawn. Princess Leia is trying desperately to hold the loose coalition of interests known as the New Republic together long enough to see the evil Empire finally...

Han Solo confronts a new rival for Princess Leia's affections in the person of Prince Isolder, who will ally the sixty-three high-tech worlds of the Hapes Consortium with the New Republic, if Leia will marry him.

Led by Wedge Antilles, the legendary pilots of Rogue Squadron prepare to risk everything in their battle against the Empire. Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the X-wing fighters. And as the battle against the Empire rages across the vastness of space, the pilots risk both their lives and their machines for the cause of the Rebel Alliance. Now they must embark on a dangerous espionage mission, braving betrayal and death on the Imperial homeworld...

The Wraith Squadron has survived its first mission, defying those who said that this group of misfits and losers would never survive. Not only did they survive, they destroyed the cunning Admiral Trigit and his flagship "Implacable". Now Wedge Antilles has an even more deadly assignment, to track down the warlord Zsinj and his Star Destroyer, "Iron Fist", before Zsinj can ally himself with the Empire.