num_pages: 288
description: When the Imperial prison barge Purgetemporary home to five hundred of the galaxys most ruthless killers rebels scoundrels and thievesbreaks down in a distant uninhabited part of space its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting derelict and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts only half of them come backbringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.And death is only the beginning. The Purges half-dozen survivorstwo teenage brothers a sadistic captain of the guards a couple of rogue smugglers and the chief medical officer the lone woman on boardwill do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isnt really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless unstoppable and unspeakably hungry.
language: English
title: Death Troopers
publisher: LucasBooks