Star Wars novels. Empire and rebellion

Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo are on traveling on a peaceful mission to negotiate supplies from Mid Rim merchants when they are diverted into territory controlled by pirates. Compounding the danger for Leia is the surprise and disappointment that the culprits are refugees from her own Alderaan homeworld. As hostile forces close in, she and the other rebels grasp at their few remaining options to survive. (P.S. This pleasing Star Wars debut by...

Luke Skywalker takes on a high-stakes espionage operation to rescue a brilliant alien cryptographer sympathetic to the rebel cause, a mission that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.