Cover Artist: Paul Youll

This is the fifth book in the X-wing series of novels, and the first book in a new storyline.

After the events of the Bacta War, Wedge Antilles and Rogue Squadron are welcomed back as if they never left in the first place. While they were off trying to take down Ysanne Isard, Wedge had an idea to form a new squadron made up of people with considerable special forces training who could also fly X-wings. He is given permission to form his new squadron and does so, but before they can finish their training the Empire finds them. Not only do they escape with no losses, they also manage to capture an Imperial Corellian Corvette using non-standard tactics. Using this Corvette they decide to infiltrate Warlord Zsinj's forces to try and bring him down from the inside.

With this book, we start a new story, this one about some of the misfits who are about to wash out of the New Republic's fighter forces. We get a good idea of where this may lead when we are introduced to Piggy, a genetically altered Gamorrean. One of the things I liked about this book was that there was actually a fair amount of humour thrown in. It really serves to set this group of pilots apart from the last group we met in the previous novels. We get to know a group of pilots who all suffer from some kind of issues that have prevented them from succeeding in the past, but more importantly we get to see them begin to work through their problems with each others help.