Star Wars - Fatal Alliance

BioWare and LucasArts -- creators of the hugely popular Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game -- have combined their storytelling talents and cutting-edge technology for an innovative new massively multiplayer online role-playing game that allows players to create their own personal Star Wars adventure 3,500 years before the rise of Darth Vader. Now #1 New York Times bestselling author Sean Williams brings the world of the game to life in his latest novel, Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance.

Tassaa Bareesh, a matriarch in the Hutt crime cartel, is holding an auction that's drawing attention from across the galaxy. Representatives of both the Republic and the Sith Empire are present, along with a Jedi Padawan sent to investigate, a disenfranchised trooper drummed out of the Republic's elite Blackstar Squad, and a mysterious Mandalorian with a private agenda. But the Republic's envoy is not what he seems, the Empire's delegate is a ruthless Sith apprentice, the Jedi Padawan is determined to do the right thing and terrified that he can't, the trooper hopes to redeem her reputation, and the Mandalorian is somehow managing to keep on step ahead of everyone.

None of these guests -- invited or uninvited -- have any intention of participating in the auction. Instead they plan to steal the prize, which is locked inside an impregnable vault: two burned chunks of an exploded star cruiser, one of which may hold the key to the wealth of an entire world.

But the truth about the treasure is dangerous and deadly. And in the end, Sith and Jedi, Republic and Empire, must do something they've never done before, something that all the agents of good and evil could never make them do: join together to stop a powerful threat that could destroy the galaxy.

Dao Stryver; Warrior (Mandalorian Male)

Darth Chratis; Sith Lord (Human Male)

Eldon Ax; Sith Apprentice (Human Female)

Jet Nebula; Captain, Auriga Fire (Human Male)

Larin Moxla; Former Republic Trooper (Kiffar Female)

Satele Shan; Jedi Grand Master (Human Female)

Shigar Konshi; Jedi Padawan (Kiffar Male)

Ula Vii; Imperial Agent (Epicanthix Male)

"Everything I have seen confirms my worst fears."

A must read!!! Reading about Jedi and Sith trying to work in coherence is always interesting; throw in a Mandalorian and it's a party.

Set in the Old Republic era "Fatal Alliance" again gives us that view of the galaxy before Vader and the tyranny of the Empire.

If you like reading about others that have lived in the galaxy other than those main heros and villians from the movies, then pick up this novel as soon as possible.

New York Times bestselling author Sean Williams was born in the dry flatlands of South Australia. He still lives there with his family, forty years later, and has no plans to move anytime soon. Author of more than sixty published short stories and twenty-nine novels for readers of all ages, he has been published around the world in numerous languages, online, and in spoken-word editions. He is a judge for the Writers of the Future contest, which he won in 1993. He is also a multiple winner of Australia's speculative fiction awards and recently received both the Ditmar and the Aurealis for The Crooked Letter, marking the first time in the history of the awards that a fantasy novel has won both.