Star Wars: Tatooine Ghost Audiobook (Free)
- Jonathan Davis
- 6 h 16 min
- Random House (Audio)
- 2007-02-20
Summary:
Han Solo and Leia Organa take center stage, and stunning revelations from days gone by play a critical role in shaping the near future, as the New York Times bestselling writer of Star Wars: The New Jedi Purchase: Superstar by Star now converts to a crucial chapter in the vintage Star Wars saga.
The fatalities of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine, and victory in the Fight of Endor in no way spelled the finish of the Empire. In the aftermath, the New Republic has faced a continuing battle to survive and grow. And now about Celebrity Wars: Tatooine Ghost a new threat looms: a masterpiece of Alderaanian art-lost in transit following the planet’s destruction-has resurfaced within the dark market. Offered at auction, it will command a good looking price . but its greatest value lies in the vital secret it conceals-the key to a code used to communicate with New Republic brokers deep undercover within the Empire. Finding of the key by Imperial makes would spell particular disaster. The only option is usually recovery-and Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO have been dispatched to Tatooine to infiltrate the public sale.
But problems is waiting when they arrive: an Imperial Star Destroyer is orbiting Tatooine on the lookout for Rebels; a mystical stranger on the auction appears to understand Leia; and an Imperial officer’s intense bidding for the Alderaanian painting could foil the Solos’ objective. When a dispute erupts into violence, and the painting vanishes in the chaos, Han and Leia are thrust right into a desperate competition to reclaim it-before Imperial soldiers or a music group of unsavory treasure-peddlers get there first.
Harmful as the chase is, for Leia it leads into especially dark territory. Already haunted with the specter of her infamous father, and fearful that his bad may infect potential generations, she’s suffered a disturbing Force-vision of Luke turning to the dark aspect. As she battles beside Han against marauding TIE fighters, encroaching stormtroopers, and Tatooine’s savage Tusken Raiders, Leia’s struggle with the warring feelings inside her culminates in the breakthrough of an extraordinary link to days gone by. So that as long-buried secrets and truths finally emerge, she encounters an instant of reckoning which will forever change her destiny . . . which of the New Republic.
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