By:  Brian Daley Published by Ballantine/Del Rey 1979 Han Solo trusts no one, and does no favors.  But when the best illegal ship builder in the galaxy disappears, Han and Chewbacca agree to go after him--after all, the Millennium Falcon needs some very special repairs.  Their search pits them against powerful and ruthless enemies out to destroy them, and finally leads them to an airless speck of desolate asteroid--the Authority prison known as Stars' End.

    Han Solo drove his swoop into the weather station's giant emission cylinder.  The pursuing craft hung back a moment, then followed.
    "Stay gripped!" he called to the woman behind him, jockeying the swoop to face his enemies.  They scattered, then dropped onto his tail again, ready to trap him at the cylinder's far end.
    Han speeded up once more.  The end of the emission cylinder was swinging, first revealing and then concealing meter-and-a-half-wide openings in the gridwork.  The opening Han had selected expanded before him as he drove toward it.  There was a terrible moment of doubt . . . then the gridwork passed him like a shadow, and they were in the open.
    He took a quick look behind.  Pieces of wreckage were raining slowly toward the ground; one of his pursuers had tried to emulate him and failed . . .