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Violence
Some
Moderate; Star Wars military and combat action
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the strategic brilliance of a villain who studies your culture to defeat you
What this book is about
Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel set five years after Return of the Jedi launched the Star Wars Expanded Universe — introducing Grand Admiral Thrawn as the Empire's new supreme commander and setting up the conflict that runs through the Thrawn Trilogy. Luke, Leia, and Han return, and Thrawn proves worthy of facing them.
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