At long last, the New York Times bestselling series that launched
the Star Wars saga into the next generation and into thrilling new
territory reaches its spectacular finale. Side by side, Luke Skywalker,
Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, their children, and their comrades in the
Galactic Alliance rally for their last stand against the enemy that
threatens not only the galaxy, but the Force itself.
The Galactic Alliance's hard-won success in countering the Yuuzhan Vong
onslaught has proven all too brief--and the tide has turned once more to
the invaders' advantage. Having overcome the sabotage strategies of the
Jedi and their allies, the marauding aliens have pushed deeper into the
galaxy and subjugated more worlds in their ruthless quest for
domination. Coruscant has been remade into a Yuuzhan Vong stronghold.
The remnants of the resistance are struggling to form a united front.
Luke, Mara, and Jacen are missing in action. Clearly the stage is set
for endgame.
Now, as Han and Leia receive the chilling news that hundreds of
high-ranking Galactic Alliance prisoners face slaughter in a sacrifice
to the enemy's bloodthirsty gods, Luke and his team try desperately to
convince the living world of Zonama Sekot to join the Jedi's final
campaign against the Yuuzhan Vong. Yet even as they speak, a lone space
station is all that stands between Alliance headquarters on Mon Calamari
. . . and wave after wave of ferocious enemy forces waging their most
decisive assault.
At the same time, the Jedi's alliances throughout the galaxy are being
tested--and the chances of victory jeopardized--by rogue factions
determined to deploy the lethal weapon that will exterminate the Yuuzhan
Vong . . . and perhaps countless other species. And among the Yuuzhan
Vong themselves, the threat of revolt has reached a boiling point--as
the oppressed underclass and powerful officials alike fear their Supreme
Overlord's mad actions will provoke the wrath of the gods.
Ultimately, for both the forces of invasion and resistance, too much has
been sacrificed --and too much is at stake--to ever turn back. And now,
nothing can stand in the way of seizing victory . . . or facing
annihilation.
