Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Author: Karen Traviss
Released: 7/08/2008

The Clone Wars have exploded across the galaxy as Republic forces and Separatists struggle to gain the upper hand. But while the Jedi generals work tirelessly to defeat Count Dooku and his rebels, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is hatching his own dark plans.

Young Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, his new Padawan Asohka, and his Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, are on a mission to rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt.

However Count Dooku and the Separatists also want to rescue the baby Hutt – because whoever succeeds in returning Jabba’s son to him will gain the support of the Hutts in the war between the Republic and the Separatists.

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Star Wars: Coruscant Nights – Patterns of Force
Author: Michael Reaves
Released: 27/01/2009

Following on from Star Wars Coruscant Nights – Street of Shadows, Patterns of Force is the final book of three related novels starring Jedi Jax Pavan, droid I-5YQ, and journalist Den Dhur during the time directly after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.

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.

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Star Wars: Coruscant Nights – Street of Shadows
Author: Michael Reaves
Released: 28/08/2008

Following on from Star Wars Coruscant Nights – Jedi Twilight, Street of Shadows is the second of three related novels starring Jedi Jax Pavan, droid I-5YQ, and journalist Den Dhur during the time directly after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.

With the Jedi all but wiped out in the grim aftermath of Order 66, the Empire’s power seems unchecked. But one lone Knight continues to fight the good fight – against all odds and when all else fails.

Deep in the bowels of Coruscant, Jedi Jax Pavan ekes out a living as a private investigator, a go-to, can-do guy for the downtrodden. Now a mysterious Zeltron knockout named Deejah approaches Jax with a case that needs to be cracked: to find out who killed her artist lover Volette, brutally murdered hours after his triumphant unveiling of a dazzling new light sculpture with obvious links to lightsaber pyrotechnics.

Finding Volette’s killer won’t be easy – too many secrets, too many suspects, and all kinds of motives. But with the droid I-5YQ’s help, and ex-reporter Den Dhur’s excellent snooping skills, the investigation is soon operating like a well – oiled machine.

Unfortunately, there’s a far more efficient machine hunting Jax. It’s a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as the clock starts ticking toward the final explosive showdown to see who strikes first and who will die first.

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Star Wars: Coruscant Nights – Jedi Twilight
Author: Michael Reaves
Released: 26/06/2008

With the dark ascension of the Empire, and the Jedi Knights virtually wiped out, one Jedi who escaped the massacre is slated for a date with destiny – and a confrontation with Darth Vader.

When Jax Pavan, hiding deep in Coruscant’s Blackpit Slums, learns that the resistance mission of his old Jedi Master has fallen on his shoulders, he has no choice but to emerge from hiding – and risk detection by Darth Vader – to fulfill his Master’s dying wish.

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Author: Sean Williams
Released: 22/08/2008

The Force Unleashed is a gripping action-adventure novel set during the previously unexplored Dark Times between Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope.

The Jedi order has been crushed under the devious hand of Emperor Palpatine. A new order has risen, one that seeks to dominate the galaxy using the iron first of Darth Vader, but Vader cannot control an entire galaxy alone.

He has selected his own apprentice from among those gifted with Force-sensitive abilities. As the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance, this new apprentice must choose their own destiny…

This was the official tie-in novel to the Spring 2008 videogame from LucasArts.

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