Jedi Search: Star Wars (The Jedi Academy): Volume 1 of the Jedi Academy Trilogy - v. 1

As the war between the Republic and the scatteredremnants of the Empire continues, twochildren--the Jedi twins--will come into their powers in auniverse on the brink of vast changes and challenges.In this time of turmoil and discovery, anextraordinary new Star Wars sagabegins....While Luke Skywalker takes the firststep toward setting up an academy to train a neworder of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca aretaken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced towork in the fathomless depths of a spice mine.

Butwhen Hans and Chewie break away, they fleedesperately to a secret imperial research laboratorysurrounded by a cluster of black holes--and go fromone danger to a far greater one....OnKessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends,only to come face to face with a weapon so awesome,it can wipe out an entire solar system.

It is adeath ship called the Sun Crusher, invented by areclusive genius and piloted by none other than Hanhimself...Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!