num_pages: 302
description: Han Solo Leia Organa Solo and Luke Skywalker return in an all-new Star Wars adventure which will challenge them in ways they never expectedand forever alter their understanding of life and the Force.When Han and Leia Solo arrive at Lando Calrissians Outer Rim mining operation to help him thwart a hostile takeover their aim is just to even up the odds and lay down the law. Then monstrous aliens arrive with a message and mere threats escalate into violent sabotage with mass fatalities. When the dust settles what began as corporate warfare becomes a battle with much higher stakesand far deadlier consequences.Now Han Leia and Luke team up once again in a quest to defeat a dangerous adversary bent on galaxy-wide domination. Only this time the Empire is not the enemy. It is a pair of ruthless geniuses with a lethal ally and a lifelong vendetta against Han Solo. They will stop at nothing to control the lucrative Outer Rim mining tradeand ultimately the entire galactic economy. And when the murderous duo gets the drop on Han he finds himself outgunned in the fight of his life. To save him and the galaxy Luke and Leia must brave a gauntlet of treachery terrorism and the untold power of an enigmatic artifact capable of bending space time and even the Force itself into an apocalyptic nightmare.
language: English
title: Star Wars: Crucible
publisher: Del Rey; Random House Inc.