Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (January 2006)

The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters and twelve Jedi Knights, including Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, along with fifty thousand men, women, and children will embark on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy: Outbound Flight.

But unknown to Master C'baoth, the successful launch of the mission is secretly being orchestrated by an unlikely ally: the evil Sidi Lord, Darth Sidious, who has his own reasons for wanting Outbound Flight to move forward ... and, ultimately, to fail.

Yet Darth Sidious is not the mission's most dangerous challenge. What begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival against staggering odds—and the most diabolical of adversaries.

Timothy Zahn's unique mix of espionage, political gamesmanship, and deadly interstellar combat breathes electrifying life into a Star Wars legend.

About the Author: ZAHN's Star Wars® novels have more than four million copies in print. Since 1978 he has written nearly seventy short stories and novelettes, nineteen novels, and three short fiction collections, and won the 1984 Hugo Award for best novella. He is best known for his six Star Wars® books (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising The Last Command, Specter of the Past, Vision of the Future, and Survivor's Quest). He lives with his family on the Oregon coast.

About the Performer: Jonathan Davis's credits include numerous regional theater performances as well as the New York productions of Three Sisters and Final Passages. Jonathan has also read many Star Wars® titles for both Random House Audio and Listening Library.