By:  K. W. Jeter Published by Bantam Books October 1998 The once powerful Bounty Hunter's Guild had been shattered into warring factions.  Now the posting of an enormous bounty on a renegade Imperial stormtrooper is about to start a frenzy of murderous greed.  Hoping to fuel rumors of his death, Boba Fett abandons his ship, Slave I, and sets out to claim the prize.  Yet his every move leads him closer to a trap set by the cunning Prince Xizor.  Fett will die before becoming Xizor's pawn in the Emperor's war against the Rebels.  And he may have to.  For in order to gain his freedom he must outwit a sentient weapon that feeds on human spirits.  Then he must escape a galaxy of deadly enemies who want to make the rumors of his death a reality.

    At the upper edge of the viewport, Boba Fett saw one of the visible stars shimmer momentarily, vanish, and then reappear in the same location.  Without conscious thought, but only pure reaction, his hand flew from the engine controls to the reverse thrusters.  His palm hammered flat the thruster controls, giving them maximum power.
    A split second later, Slave I hit the invisible object whose presence Fett had barely managed to detect.
    The impact tore him from the pilot's chair, sending him tumbling across the curved bank of cockpit controls.  His spine struck the clear transparisteel of the viewport, a blow hard enough to send a shock of pain into the center of his skull, blinding him....