Well now, this was a nice surprise in the dialogue department. I found it enjoyable, although the stakes and mission at hand weren't anything bigger than what we've seen before. Sort of like a "just another mission" story. I gave it a full review with pictures here if anyone is interested.
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The book opens after A New Hope, Luke, Leia R2-D2 and Han are pretending to be emissaries of Jabba on Corellion Cymoon 1 to negotiate a deal to supply weapons.Or so it seems. Luke and Leia are undercover, but Zuckus the bounty hunter is there to greet them and knows who Han is and that he has a bounty on his head.
Chewie is outside with a sniper weapon and C-3P0 is at the Millennium Falcon ready to aid in escape if need be.
With their weapons taken away R2 sprays a sludge on the floor and zaps it to take out some stormtroopers. Luke wanders off and finds some slaves who have been doing all the work in an "automated" factory. He frees them, but the negotiator shows up, none other than Dark Vader. Leia tells Chewie to take the shot and kill him but he obviously is too good to be taken out like a chump. He uses two StormTroopers as a shield even. Yipes.
C-3P0 can't get the ship off the ground due to some local scavengers but Han decides to steal a AT-AT to make a getaway. Darth senses Luke and seeks him out. The final page shows them ready to duel and Obi-Wan's spirit tells Luke to run.
What did you guys think?!