Emperor Palpatine is targeting Luke Skywalker's hidden military base with a new long-range, hyperspace Galaxy Gun, whose power already has whole star systems falling to their knees. But Palpatine himself has a problem: a bad clone body that is breaking down like an Edsel. Multilayered subplots and tons of intergalactic action keep this book racing toward its primary story element: To keep on living, the Emperor needs some high-test DNA from the Jedi gene pool, and he's got someone very special in mind -- Han and Leia's child!
-Edward Lee