✦ LIBER ✦

The Hive

✍ Scribed by Barnes, Steven

Book ID: 110486138
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2004
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 407 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780345478689

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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BONUS: This short story features an exclusive author interview--plus an excerpt from Steven Barnes'Star Wars novel, The Cestus Deception.**_
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**WHAT LIES BENEATH

**Dispatched as a Republic envoy to the Outer Rim planet Ord Cestus--in a bid to halt the sale of potentially deadly "bio-droids" to the Confederacy--Obi-Wan Kenobi finds himself enlisted in a mission more desperate, and dangerous, than diplomatic. The once self-contained world has long since been co-opted by unscrupulous offworlders, whose plunder of a vital natural resource has enabled the rise of a powerful corporation that controls the economy. Ord Cestus's native population, the X'Ting, are now mere second-class citizens in their own society.

Enter the Jedi Knight, with news that a legal technicality has turned the tables--and the corrupt forces with a stranglehold on Ord Cestus are now at the mercy of the X'Ting. Circumstances, however,...

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