Summary:

Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the
Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and
reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and
pass on the wisdom, and one apprentice to learn, challenge, and
ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel to the death. But Bane’s
acolyte, Zannah, has yet to engage her Master in mortal combat and
prove herself a worthy successor. Determined that the Sith dream of
galactic domination will not die with him, Bane vows to learn the
secret of a forgotten Dark Lord that will assure the Sith’s
immortality–and his own.A perfect opportunity arises when a Jedi
emissary is assassinated on the troubled mining planet Doan, giving
Bane an excuse to dispatch his apprentice on a fact-finding
mission–while he himself sets out in secret to capture the ancient
holocron of Darth Andeddu and its precious knowledge. But Zannah is
no fool. She knows that her ruthless Master has begun to doubt her,
and she senses that he is hiding something crucial to her future. If
she is going to claim the power she craves, she must take action now.
While Bane storms the remote stronghold of a fanatical Sith cult,
Zannah prepares for her Master’s downfall by choosing an apprentice
of her own: a rogue Jedi cunning and cold-blooded enough to embrace
the Sith way and to stand beside her when she at last wrests from
Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith. But Zannah is not the only
one with the desire and power to destroy Darth Bane. Princess Serra
of the Doan royal family is haunted by memories of the monstrous Sith
soldier who murdered her father and tortured her when she was a
child. Bent on retribution, she hires a merciless assassin to find
her tormentor–and bring him back alive to taste her wrath.Only a Sith
who has taken down her own Master can become Dark Lord of the Sith.
So when Bane suddenly vanishes, Zannah must find him–possibly even
rescue him–before she can kill him. And so she pursues her quarry
from the grim depths of a ravaged world on the brink of catastrophe
to the barren reaches of a desert outpost, where the future of the
dark side’s most powerful disciples will be decided, once and for
all, by the final, fatal stroke of a lightsaber.From the Hardcover
edition.

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Dewey Class: 813 -- Fiction

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Physical Description: 336 pages
Edition Info: Mass Market Paperback; 2010-09-28

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