Cover Artist: Drew Struzan

Admiral Leonia Tavira has been very successful at hiding her Star Destroyer Invidious from the New Republic forces while still managing to be a successful pirate. Corran Horn is with Rogue Squadron trying to track her down but they are not having much success. After a raid on a pirate group associated with the Invids, Rogue Squadron heads back to Coruscant to rest before their next mission against Tavira. Corran arrives home to find that his wife Mirax Terrik isn't there and, after a nightmare, discovers that she has been abducted by Tavira's forces. Corran weighs his options and decides that the best way for him to find his wife will be to join Luke Skywalker on Yavin IV and become a Jedi. Under an assumed name, he begins to learn the ways of the Force and proves to be a real help during the Exar Kun incident. When Kyp Durron returns to the Jedi academy, Corran decides that it is time for him to leave and seek out information pertaining to his own heritage by visiting his Grandfather on Corellia. While there he changes his mind about being a Jedi and decides that the best way for him to find his wife is to infiltrate the Invids by relying on the skills he learned with the Corellian Security Force. When an incident with a fellow Invid pilot leaves him with a Caamasi servant and a promise that he will join Tavira on the Invidious in one month, he discovers that he is still wrong about the best way to find his wife. He discovers that he has been operating with two separate halves of himself, when he should be working as a whole being. When he does this, he uses superstition and fear to decimate the ranks of the mercenaries helping Tavira and finally discovers where his wife is being held. With the help of Luke Skywalker and other friends, Corran manages to fight through Tavira's defenses to confront the Jensaarai and rescue his wife.

This book is unique in several ways. First off, this is one of the few Star Wars novels written completely in the first-person. In addition, this book was written four years after the Jedi Academy trilogy and inserts a character into the story that was never mentioned at the time. It works well enough because there are several Jedi trainees who are never mentioned by name in the Jedi Academy trilogy, and his character is written to stay more in the background. I really enjoyed this book, and it is even one of my favorites. That being said, I had a hard time with how Corran behaved in this book. There were times that it felt like he was acting like a spoiled child, and that was hard to read considering how mature he seemed in other books I'd read with him. A big indicator of how much I liked this book though, was that when it was time to name my first child I chose to give him the name Keiran as his middle name.