Author(s): Michael A. Stackpole

Younger Fiction

Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the X-wing fighters. And as the battleagainst the Empire rages across the vastness of space, the pilots risk boththeir lives and their machines for the cause of the Rebel Alliance. Now theymust embark on a dangerous espionage mission, braving betrayal and death on theImperial homeworld to smash the power of a ruthless foe!It is the evil heart of a battered and reeling Empire: Coruscant, the giantcity-world from whose massive towers the Imperial High Command directs the war.The Rebels will invade this mighty citadel in a daring move to bring the Empireto its knees. But first Wedge Antilles and his X-wing pilots must infiltrateCoruscant to gain vital intelligence information. Capture means death, orworse--enslavement by the vicious leader known as "Iceheart, " Ysanne Isard, nowEmperor in all but name. And one of Rogue Squadron's own is already her slave, a traitor hidden behind a mask of innocence, working to betray both colleaguesand the Rebellion itself.