Star Wars / The Thrawn Trilogy / Heir to the Empire / Timothy Zahn

With the war seemingly won, the first tensions are becoming visible in the rebel alliance. New challenges to galactic peace have emerged. And Luke Skywalker hears a voice from his past. A voice with a warning. Beware the dark side….

The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and pushed the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet back to barely a quarter of the territory it once controlled. Leia and Han are married, expecting Jedi twins, and Luke Skywalker is the first in a hoped-for new line of Jedi Knights. But thousands of light years away, where a few skirmishes are still taking place, the Emperor’s last warlord has taken command of what remains of the Imperial fleet. He has made two crucial discoveries that could destroy the fragile new Republic…