**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this essential Star Wars
Legends novel--the first ever to take place after the events of the
original trilogy--Grand Admiral Thrawn makes his debut on the galactic
stage.
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Five years ago, the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star, defeated
Darth Vader and the Emperor, and drove the remnants of the old Imperial
Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo
are married and expecting twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first
in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights.
But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperor's warlords,
Grand Admiral Thrawn, has taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet,
readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New
Republic. For this dark warrior has made a vital discovery that could
destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance
fought so hard to build.