About the Book
Before the Star Wars movies, before the titanic battles that freed the
galaxy from the iron grip of the Empire, here is the never-before-told
story of the young Han Solo. In Book One of this exciting new trilogy,
the famed rogue, con man, smuggler, and thief struggles to survive on a
sinister world where the chief export is slavery.
He was a child without a past, a Corellian street urchin, abandoned,
foraging for scraps of food, when the cruel Garris Shrike whisked him
away to a nomadic band of spacefaring criminals. Now, years later,
chafing under Shrike's sadistic tyranny, driven by dreams of adventure
and glory, Han fights his way free. His goal: to become an Imperial Navy pilot.
But first he needs hands-on experience flying spacecraft, and for that he takes a job on the planet Ylesia – a steaming world of religious fanaticism, illicit drugs, and alluring sensuality... where dreams are destroyed and escape is impossible.
