When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxys most ruthless killers rebels scoundrels & thieves-breaks down in a distant uninhabited part of space its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting derelict & seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts only half of them come back-bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine. & death is only the beginning. The Purges half-dozen survivors-two teenage brothers a sadistic captain of the guards a couple of rogue smugglers & the chief medical officer the lone woman on board-will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isnt really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless unstoppable & unspeakably hungry. ...

There is a great disturbance in the Force... From the sleek ships of the glimmering Coruscant skyscape to the lush gardens of pastoral Naboo dissent is roiling. The Republic is failing even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine elected ten years earlier to save the crumbling government. Separatists threaten war & the Senate is hopelessly divided unable to determine whether to raise an army for battle or keep the fragile peace. Anakin Skywalker has come of age in a time of great upheaval. The nineteen-year-old apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi is an enigma to the Jedi Council & a challenge to his Jedi Master. Time has not dulled Anakins ambition nor has his Jedi training tamed his independent streak. When an attempt on Senator Padm- Amidalas life brings them together for the first time in ten years it is clear that time also has not dulled Anakins intense feelings for the beautiful diplomat. The attack on Senator Amidala just before a crucial vote thrusts the Republic even closer to the edge of disaster. Masters Yoda & Mace Windu sense enormous unease. The dark side is growing clouding the Jedis perception of the events. But even as the Republic falters around them Anakin & Padm- find a connection so intense that all else begins to fall away. Anakin will lose himself-and his way-in emotions a Jedi sworn to hold allegiance only to the Order is forbidden to have. ...

Luke & Ben Skywalker arrive in the mysterious part of space called The Maw in search of more clues as to what caused Jacen Solo's downfall into the dark side. But they are not the only ones exploring The Maw: a Sith Master & her apprentice arrive there too having followed the delinquent ancient Sith ship found by Ben in The Legacy of the Force
- & they're thrilled to find Luke there because they are determined to kill him. But there's another powerful being hiding in The Maw. It's enormously strong purely evil & it has its own plans for Luke Skywalker...
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Three major storylines run through The Fate of the Jedi series." One is the odyssey of Jedi Gr&-Master-in-Exile Luke Skywalker & his son Ben as they travel from one world of non-Jedi Force-users to the next in search of clues as to what might have turned Jacen Solo to embrace the evil ways of the Sith Lords. The second is the attempts of Galactic Alliance Chief of State Natasi Daala to break the power of the Jedi Order while young Jedi Knights on a variety of worlds are inexplicably going insane. & the third is the tale of a previously unknown lost tribe of Sith as they rejoin the known galaxy determined to kill Luke Skywalker destroy all the Jedi & reinstate the Sith as supreme rulers. In " Backlash " Luke & Ben will visit the deadly world of Dathomir home to the Night Sisters otherwise known as the Dathomiri Witches as an ancient evil released from its prison stretches its hungry tendrils ever farther through the galaxy..." ...

Luke & Ben Skywalker continue on their quest to learn the ways of non-Jedi Force-users & to try to understand just what went wrong with Jacen Solo that caused him to become a Sith. In the meantime Han Leia & Jaina Solo
- along with Jag Fel & the other Jedi
- try to deal with the escalating problem of Jedi Knights seemingly going insane...

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In the stunning finale of the epic Fate of the Jedi" series Jedi & Sith face off
- with Coruscant as their battlefield.
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In the stunning finale of the epic Fate of the Jedi" series Jedi & Sith face off
- with Coruscant as their battlefield.
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How long can the Jedi remain in power?"" How far will the Sith go to rule supreme?"" What chance do both stand against Abeloth?" As Luke & Ben Skywalker pursue the formidable dark-side being Abeloth the Lost Tribe of the Sith is about to be sundered by an even greater power--which will thrust one Dark Lord into mortal conflict with his own flesh-&-blood. On Coruscant a political vacuum has left tensions at the boiling point with factions racing to claim control of the Galactic Alliance. Suddenly surrounded by hidden agendas treacherous conspiracies & covert Sith agents the Jedi Order must struggle to keep the GA government from collapsing into anarchy. The Jedi are committed to maintaining peace & ensuring just rule but even they are not prepared to take on the combined threats of Sith power a deposed dictator bent on galaxywide vengeance & an entity of pure cunning & profound evil hungry to become a god." ...

In this penultimate novel in the bestselling Fate of the Jedi" series Luke Skywalker his son Ben & the Sith girl Vestara are in hot pursuit of the dread power called Abeloth who has joined forces with the Sith in a bid to take over the galaxy. The leadership of the government is uncertain torn apart by power struggles & infiltrators while the Sith have a terrible secret that could shake the Jedi Order to its core..." ...

While Luke & Ben Skywalker continue their exploration of the mystery known as Abeloth with their unlikely Sith allies the galaxy is abuzz with the trial of former Jedi Knight Tahiri Veila. This moment when the fate of the Jedi might be determined is close at hand as the exiled Grand Master works to find a reason behind the madness afflicting the Jedi while those charged with keeping the Order intact struggle against a Republic that seems to have already declared their verdict in the only court that matters: the court of public opinion. Conviction" begins the mini-trilogy that will leave readers breathlessly waiting to see how the bestselling " Fate of the Jedi" series ends." ...