Book description
Not long before the events of THE PHANTOM MENACE, the Sith Lord, Darth
Sidious, is meeting via hologram with the Neimoidian Viceroy, Nute
Gunray, and his seconds in command. But something is wrong: Where there
are three Neimoidians, there should be a fourth. Where is he? No one
knows. Angry and suspicious, sure that the fourth Neimoidian, Hath
Monchar, is out there blabbing Darth Sidious' secrets, Sidious sends his
apprentice, Darth Maul, out to investigate. His mission: Find and kill
Hath Monchar. Then figure out whom Monchar might have spoken with, and
kill them, too. Lorn Pavan is an information broker, who makes his
living finding information and selling it to the highest bidder. When
the Neimoidian, Hath Monchar, shows up with a very interesting holocron
with information about an actual, living - and evil-plotting - Sith
Lord, Lorn knows he's got something really hot. So when Monchar is
murdered, Lorn manages to get his hands on the holocron anyway. His
motives are anything but noble. Darsha Assant is a Jedi Padawan. She and
Lorn find themselves thrown together unexpectedly, and when they realize
that it is a Sith Lord on their trail, they realize that they must
somehow get the holocron to the Jedi Council. But Darth Maul is too good
a tracker. What's more, he's never failed his Master, Darth Sidious, and
he doesn't intend to this time, either... Michael Reaves is an Emmy
Award-winning TV writer, screenwriter and novelist. His work includes
hundreds of teleplays (including Star Trek: The Next Generation and
Sliders), screenplays (including the co-written Batman: Mask of the
Phantasm), and thirteen novels. He has also been nominated for several
awards.
