James S A Corey - Honor Among Thieves.nfo
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Title: Honor Among Thieves
Author: James S A Corey
Read By: Marc Thompson
Copyright: 2014
Audiobook Copyright: 2014
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Books on Tape
Series Name: Star Wars: Empire & Rebellion
Position in Series: 02
Abridged: No
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Book Description
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Description-
Nebula and Hugo Award nominees Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck--writing
as James S. A. Corey--make their Star Wars debut in this brand-new epic
adventure featuring Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia Organa.
The action begins after the destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars:
Episode IV A New Hope.
When the Empire threatens the galaxy's new hope, will Han, Luke, and
Leia become its last chance?
When the mission is to extract a high-level rebel spy from the very
heart of the Empire, Leia Organa knows the best man for the job is Han
Solo--something the princess and the smuggler can finally agree on.
After all, for a guy who broke into an Imperial cell block and helped
destroy the Death Star, the assignment sounds simple enough.
But when Han locates the brash rebel agent, Scarlet Hark, she's determined
to stay behind enemy lines. A pirate plans to sell a cache of stolen
secrets that the Empire would destroy entire worlds to protect--including
the planet where Leia is currently meeting with rebel sympathizers.
Scarlet wants to track down the thief and steal the bounty herself,
and Han has no choice but to go along if he's to keep everyone involved
from getting themselves killed. From teeming city streets to a lethal
jungle to a trap-filled alien temple, Han, Chewbacca, Leia, and their
daring new comrade confront one ambush, double cross, and firestorm
after another as they try to keep crucial intel out of Imperial hands.-
But even with the crack support of Luke Skywalker's X-Wing squadron,
the Alliance heroes may be hopelessly outgunned in their final battle
for the highest of stakes: the power to liberate the galaxy from tyranny
or ensure the Empire's reign of darkness forever.
Excerpts-
From the book
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Corey: STAR WARS EMPIRE AND REBELLION HONOR AMONG THIEVES
CHAPTER One
From the Imperial Core to the outflung stars of the Rim, the galaxy
teemed with life. Planets, moons, asteroid bases, and space stations
peopled with a thousand different species, all of them busy with the
great ambitions of the powerful and also with the mundane problems of
getting through their days, the ambitions of the Emperor all the way
down to where to eat the next meal. Or whether there would be a next
meal. Each city and town and station and ship had its own histories
and secrets, hopes and fears and half-articulated dreams.
But for every circle of light--every star, every planet, every beacon
and outpost--there was vastly more darkness. The space between stars
was and always would be unimaginably huge, and the mysteries that it
hid would never be wholly discovered. One bad jump was all it took for
a ship to be lost. Unless there was a way to reach out for help, to
say Here I am. Come find me, an escape pod or a ship or a fleet could
vanish into the places between places that even light took a lifetime
to reach.
And so a rendezvous point could be the size of a solar system, and the
rebel fleet could still hide there like a flake in a snowstorm. Hundreds
of ships, from cobbled-together, plasma-scorched cruisers and thirdhand
battleships to X- and Y-wings and everything in between. They flew through
space together silently, drifting closer in or farther apart as the
need arose. Repair droids crawled over the skins of the ships, welding
back together the wounds of their last battles, sure in the knowledge
that they were the needle in the Empire's haystack.
Their greatest danger wasn't the enemy, but inaction. And the ways a
certain kind of man coped with it.
"I wasn't cheating," Han Solo said as Chewbacca bent to pass through
the door in the bulkhead. "I was playing better than they were."
The Wookiee growled.
"That's how I was playing better. It's not against the rules. Besides,
what are they going to buy with their money out here?"
A dozen fighter pilots marching past in dirty orange-and-white uniforms
saluted them. Han nodded to each one as he passed. They were an ugly
bunch: middle-aged men who should have been back home on a planet somewhere
spending too much time at the neighborhood bar and weedy boys still
looking forward to their first wispy mustaches. Warriors for freedom,
and terrible sabacc players.
Chewbacca let out a long, low groan.
"You wouldn't," Han said.
Chewbacca's blue eyes met his, and the Wookiee's silence was more eloquent
than anything he might have said aloud.
"Fine," Han retorted. "But it's coming out of your cut. I don't know
when you went soft on me."
"Han!"
Luke Skywalker came jogging down a side corridor, his helmet under his
arm. Two droids followed him: the squat, cylindrical R2-D2 rolling along,
chirping and squealing; and the tall, golden C-3PO trotting along at
the back, waving gold-chrome hands as if gesticulating in response to
some unheard conversation. The kid's face was flushed and his hair was
dark with sweat, but he was grinning as if he'd just won something.
"Hey," Han said. "Just get back from maneuvers?"
"Yep. These guys are great. You should have seen the tight spin and
recover they showed us. I could have stayed out there for hours, but
Leia called me back in for some kind of emergency meeting."
"Her Worshipfulness called the meeting?" Han asked as they turned down
the main access corridor together. The smell of welding torches and
coolant hung in the air. Everything about the Rebel Alliance smelled...-
About the Author-
James S. A. Corey is the pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham
and Ty Franck. Under that name, they have written Leviathan Wakes and
Caliban's War.
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