Book description
Major original Star Wars adventure set against the backdrop of the
Clone Wars and telling the tale of Anakin Skywalker's rise to full
Jedi Knight status.
Somewhere between Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars:
Episode III, Anakin Skywalker graduates from Jedi Padawan (apprentice)
to Jedi Knight status. This book tells how that happens. A planet that
is a crucial communications centre is taken by the Separatists, and
the Republic decides to back a guerrilla fighting group called
Freedom's Sons in taking it back. A detachment of clone troopers led
by Jedi Knight Nejaa Halcyon and Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker is sent
out to help the Freedom's Sons.
Little does Anakin know that the volatile situation on this occupied
planet will prove to be his own personal Jedi Trial, and that if he
emerges victorious, he will have won the coveted titled of full Jedi
Knight, student no longer but Jedi in his own right. This is the
Anakin who learns how great his powers can be and how huge is his real potential.
David Sherman and Dan Cragg are the authors of Del Rey's
successful military science fiction series Starfist.
David Sherman is a former U. S. Marine and the author of 8
previously published novels about Marines in Vietnam, where he served
as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is
also the author of a new military fantasy series entitled Demontech.
Dan Cragg enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1958 and retired with the
rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. He is co-author of
Inside the VC and NVA , Top Sergeant, and The Soldier's Prize. Mr.
Cragg is an analyst for the Defense Dept. He and his wife, Sunny, live
in Virginia.
