Here is the second novel in the blockbuster new trilogy that reveals the never-before-told
story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars(r) movie adventures these books
chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man smuggler and thief.Solo is now
a fugitive from the Imperial Navy. But he has made a valuable friend in a former Wookiee slave
named Chewbacca who has sworn Han a life debt. Han will need all the help he can get. For the
Ylesian Hutts have dispatched the dreaded bounty hunter Boba Fett to track down the man who
already outsmarted them once. But Han and Chewie find themselves in even bigger trouble when
they agree to lend their services to the crime lords Jiliac and Jabba the Hutt. Suddenly the
two smugglers are thrust into the middle of a battle between the might of the Empire and the
treachery of their outlaw allies...a battle where even victory means death!
