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Star Wars: Dark Force Rising: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 2

By: Timothy Zahn
Narrated by: Marc Thompson
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 In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, the sequel to Heir to the Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn’s sinister plan threatens to spell doom for the fledgling New Republic and its most iconic heroes.

The dying Empire’s most cunning and ruthless warlord, Grand Admiral Thrawn, has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial Fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic’s destruction. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Lando Calrissian race against time to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Council—only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies.

Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past, consumed by bitterness, and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the dark side. Adventure Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Star Wars Interstellar Bounty Hunter
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wonderful great story and brilliantly read
highly recommended. Almost removes the bad taste The last Jedi left

loved it

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the novel was fantastic and the narration was immersive and captured the spirit of the characters

fantastic novel

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Bit slower than the first book at times, but the characters are excellent, the descriptions vivid and immersive, and the action is tense and exciting. The best part is the narration and the production. The music and sound effects help the book to come alive, and at the the same time serve up a healthy portion of nostalgia.

Narration and production is incredibly good.

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Fantastic sequel. Would recommend to all my friends. Really hard to not just listen all day.

fantastic book

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This was ca fantastic listen. Great continuation of this series, I was hooked from the start, definitely worth a purchase

what a truely sardonic experience

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Picks up where Heir to the Empire left off, I consumed this voraciously. A blessing that I'm writing this now in 2020 and not having to wait for a painstakingly long time between books because I couldn't have waited between books.

Excellent production, essential listening for SW fans.

its "The Empire Strikes Back" of Audiobooks

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Marc’s narrating and Timothy Zahn’s writing is unmatched. Now it is time for Marc to narrate the new Jedi order series. It wouldn’t be the same without him

Get Marc to voice NJO

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Great continuation in Zahns truly masterful trilogy with great narration to boot by mark thompson

Peak EU Star Wars

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amazing audiobook and as always a brilliant performance. have enjoyed all the other thrawn books and worked my way backwards to this original trilogy. just uses "sardonic" an awful lot...

sardonic as a sardine from Sardinia

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Another perfect entry into a Thrawn series by Timothy Zahn. Marc Thompson nailed it as usual.

You can't go wrong with Thrawn!

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