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A Tangled Web - Last of the Jedi 5
Former Jedi Apprentice, Ferus Olin, reluntantly meets with Emperor Palpatine. He's told to go to Samarian city of Sath to right the workings of a saboteur. Someone has put a bug in the highly computerized city system so that personal identity information is switched between people at random. Without quick action, the city of Sath will explode in chaos. Initially, Ferus turns the Emperor down flat, but he eventually agrees to search for the saboteur o...
Dark Warning - The Last of the Jedi 2
Ferus Olin and Obi-Wan Kenobi spend much of their time just trying to stay alive. They start the book with Boba Fett and his cyborg sidekick, D'harhan trying to blast them at the Red Twins spaceport. Young Trever Flume, who stowed away on the ship Obi-Wan and Ferus took out of Bellassa, where Ferus is wanted by the Imperial government for leading the resistance movement there. Trever steals them a ship and they barely escape the spaceport to Acherin, ...
Death in Naboo - Last of the Jedi 4
Ferus Olin's a prisoner of the newly minted Imperial government. His friends are still under attack and barely escape with their lives. Jedi Solace and young Trever and a few others are forced to fight their way through some stormtroopers before diving into an icy pool to escape. Once safe, they go to Dex's hideout to rest and plan how to get to Ferus. Ferus and an old friend meet up in prison. They plot and execute their escape from prison just in ...
Deceptions - Jedi Apprentice Special Edition 1
Young Obi-Wan Kenobi is still reeling from having fought and then watched another Jedi apprentice die. Bruck Chun's father and brother now want Obi-Wan to pay and so they start a Senate investigation hearing against the young Jedi. Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Bant must face the stern senators and a slimy prosecutor bent on twisting each and every one of their words. Meanwhile, someone is trying to sabotage the Jedi's test program for pilots. Clee Rhara, ...

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Jedi Quest
When Anakin Skywalker was seven, he and his friend Amee went on a lovely picnic, but the perfect day was ruined by a slave raid in which Amee's mother, Hala, was captured by the ruthless pirate Krayn. Six years later, Anakin has become a Jedi Apprentice and needs to build a lightsaber. He and his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, go to the crystal caves on Illum so Anakin can get crystals to fashion his own lightsaber. In those caves, they face fierce creatures...
Secrets of the Jedi
Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Adi Gallia, and Siri Tachi are on a mission to safeguard a ten-year-old technical genius, Talesan Fry who intercepted a dangerous message. There's going to be an assassination attempt at a secret meeting of twenty planetary leaders. Taly must testify before the senate, but first, he needs to get there alive. The Jedi go to the planet Cirrus to pick up Taly and his parents. A bounty hunter attacks them in the hotel Taly a...
The Dark Rival - Jedi Apprentice 2
Qui-Gon Jinn's past is not at rest. How can he forge a bond with young Obi-Wan Kenobi while he is haunted by the betrayal of his first apprentice - Xanatos? Xanatos was also a promising student...until the dark side of the Force intervened. Qui-Gon thought he was gone forever. But now Xanatos is back. And he wants revenge. While thankful for Obi-Wan's life-saving help on the trip to Bandomeer, Qui-Gon must put aside his mixed feelings over the young a...
The Defenders of the Dead - Jedi Apprentice 5
Jedi Knight Tahl went to Melida/Daan where the inhabitants can't agree on anything, even their own planet name. The peacekeeping mission went awry and Tahl was gravely wounded and captured. Now, Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his young apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi must go to Melida/Daan and rescue Tahl. A Melida named Wehutti agrees to smuggle the Jedi into the contested city of Zehava, but it's a trap. The Jedi escape from the Melida compound with the h...
The Desperate Mission - Last of the Jedi 1
During his self imposed exile, Obi-Wan Kenobi is on Tatooine watching over an infant Luke Skywalker. In a cantina, he overhears some amazing news: Ferus Olin, former Jedi padawan who left the order, is alive and on Bellassa but being hunted by imperials. After a brief inner struggle, Obi-Wan determines to go there and help Ferus. Ferus escaped prison but not cleanly. He was wounded and is now recovering under the care of Dona. Obi-Wan, with the help...
The Followers - Jedi Apprentice Special Edition 2
Dr. Lundi's an eccentric professor who's loved by students and peers alike; his specialty: sith history. Almost from the first moment, Qui-Gon Jinn and eighteen-year-old Obi-wan Kenobi are confused as to what they're actually seeking but soon they find out it's a Sith Holocron. The Jedi team follows Dr. Lundi to track down a Sith Holocron. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon meet with fierce resistence from the sith followers, some of whom are Lundi's students. Obi-w...

Jude Watson list of books

The Hidden Past - Jedi Apprentice 3
Jedi Knight Qui-Gon and 13-year-old apprentice Obi-Wan are officially master and Padawan. The two have been sent off on their first mission by Master Yoda, who has given them a boring assignment: overseeing the elections on Gala, where Prince Beju has been forced to submit his promised throne to a popular vote. As usual for our Jedi heroes, though, nothing goes quite as planned--on the way to Gala they get hijacked to Phindar, where the evil Syndicat ru...
The Mark of the Crown - Jedi Apprentice 4
It seems Queen Veda of Gala is dying, and her final wish is to convert her planet's rule from a monarchy to a democracy. This aim is complicated by any number of factions who benefit greatly from the status quo….including Queen Veda's son, Prince Baju. But he might not be her only heir. There may be another bearing the elusive Mark of the Crown. Qui-Gon Jinn and young Obi-Wan Kenobi come to the planet of Gala as guardians of peace. Now they are facing ...
The Rising Force - Jedi Apprentice 1
Just before his 13th birthday, Obi-Wan Kenobi left Yoda and the other teachers at the Jedi Temple. But he wasn't supposed to become a Padawan, a future Jedi Knight, he was assigned to be a farmer! Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force joins the headstrong Obi-Wan a few weeks before he's to turn 13, when he'll be too old to begin training as a Jedi Knight. Trying too hard to become Qui-Gon Jinn's Padawan, Obi-Wan shows his lack of discipline, and that--in ad...
Underworld - Last of the Jedi 3
Former Jedi Ferus Olin and street-smart, thirteen-year-old Trever Flume sneak into the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to see if there's a Jedi held captive there. In the temple, Ferus has a closer connection to the force. He experiences many memories, some good, some sad. They discover a room full of lightsabers taken from fallen Jedi. Soon after, they realize it's a trap, but it's too late. They're attacked by a squad of stormtroopers. They manage to sli...