Star Wars: Scoundrels

I finished reading Scoundrels, by Timothy Zahn just now. It follows Han Solo just after A New Hope (and right before Allegiance). Han is approached to do a heist, he gets in some other people to help him do it. The team is to break into a mansion and steal some credit chips. It's not a "you absolutely must read this" book but it's still a lot of fun! Just a good fun adventure. I won't give something away but I had my suspicions about something for a while that were finally confirmed in the last sentence of the book. That was part of the fun actually, that I didn't figure it out right away. It started with "hm I wonder... nah, well maybe... no, probably not" and kept going like that until the end. Like I said, it was just fun all around.

While Zahn was writing this (or maybe it was done and just in editing?) I saw a cover picture and the cover of the book had Lando on it! That couldn't be right! At that point in time Lando is mad at Han over something that happened in the Han Solo Trilogy which happens before A New Hope. How could they be together on a job? I was even actually upset and surprised Zahn would do something like this. Well, I shouldn't have been. And I doubt he'll ever see this but if he does I'm sorry! I shouldn't have doubted you. As always, he is the master of Star Wars fiction and handled it nicely. So nicely that I have no complaints at all about it. And you know I love to complain. I also learned a few things, I apparently didn't understand the Yavin Vasilika as well as I thought I did (it's a horribly confusing comic book drawn by someone who can't draw who hasn't got a clue what Han looks like with a plot that's barely canon at best) and that I need to read the Ylesia story because I have to admit I've never done that. It's a short story that was included with one of the NJO, I believe, and is referenced in this book.

I found it neat that Kell Tainer was in the book. I only somewhat remember him from the Wraith Squadron books but it was still a good throw in.

I also enjoyed the short story "Winner Lose All" at the end.