num_pages: 288
description: After the Empire's bloody purge of the Jedi one lone Knight still fights for those who cannot unaware that he's about to be swept into a cataclysmic battle against the Master of Darkness himself.Throughout the galaxy a captured Jedi is a dead Jedi even in Coruscant's most foul subterranean slums where Jedi Knight Jax Pavan champions the causes of the oppressed with the help of hard-nosed reporter Den Dhur and the wisecracking droid I-5YQ. But Jax is also involved in another struggle--to unlock the secrets of his father's death and his own past.While Jax believes that I-5YQ holds some of those answers he never imagines that the truth could be shocking enough to catapult him to the frontlines of a plot to kill Emperor Palpatine. Worse yet Darth Vader's relentless search for Jax is about to end . . . in triumph. The future looming over the valiant Jedi and his staunch pals promises to be dark and brief because there's no secret whatsoever about the harshest truth of all: Few indeed are those who tangle with Darth Vader . . . and live to tell the tale.
language: English
title: Patterns of Force
publisher: Random House Worlds