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Written by Timothy Zahn - Abridged Fiction - 6 CASSETTES - 9 hours

Publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell (March 2000)

Features original Star Wars music and sound effects.

THE THRAWN trILOGY COLLECTED TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME

HEIR TO THE EMPIRE - Performed by Dennis Lawson

It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven the remnants of the old Imperial fleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a hoped-for new line of Jedi Knights.

But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperor's warlords has taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to build.

DARK FORCE RISING - Performed by Anthony Daniels

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.

But the 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.

THE LAST COMMAND - Performed by Anthony Daniels

The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the New Republic back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the Empire, while Leia holds the Republic together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn's command, the Republic has one last hope—sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn's terrible cloning machines.

There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C'baoth directs the battle against the New Republic and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker.