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    Wedge's Gamble: Star Wars: X-Wing
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    Wedge's Gamble: Star Wars: X-Wing
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    Wedge's Gamble: Star Wars: X-Wing

    Written by Michael A. Stackpole

    Narrated by Henry Thomas

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    Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the X-wing fighters. And as the battle against the Empire rages across the vastness of space, the pilots risk both their lives and their machines for the cause of the Rebel Alliance. Now they must embark on a dangerous espionage mission, braving betrayal and death on the Imperial homeworld to smash the power of a ruthless foe!

    It is the evil heart of a battered and reeling Empire: Coruscant, the giant city-world from whose massive towers the Imperial High Command directs the war. The Rebels will invade this mighty citadel in a daring move to bring the Empire to its knees. But first Wedge Antilles and his X-wing pilots must infiltrate Coruscant to gain vital intelligence information. Capture means death, or worse--enslavement by the vicious leader known as "Iceheart," Ysanne Isard, now Emperor in all but name. And one of Rogue Squadron's own is already her slave, a traitor hidden behind a mask of innocence, working to betray both colleagues and the Rebellion itself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 20, 2007
    ISBN9780553754391
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    Wedge's Gamble: Star Wars: X-Wing
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    Michael A. Stackpole

    Michael A. Stackpole is an award-winning novelist, game designer, computer game designer, podcaster, screenwriter, and graphic novelist. He’s had more than forty-five novels published, the best known of those being the New York Times bestselling Star Wars books I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron. He has an asteroid named after him and, since undertaking to write Vol’jin: Shadows of the Horde, spends a lot of his spare time "leveling up!" 

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    • 4/5
      Michael A. Stackpole's X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble follows Rogue Squadron as it infiltrates Coruscant prior to the Rebel invasion to capture the city-world. Set six-and-a-half years after Return of the Jedi, this novel helps to bridge the events of Kathy Tyers' The Truce at Bakura and Dave Wolverton's The Courtship of Princess Leia. The Rogues themselves - Wedge Antilles, Tycho Celchu, Corran Horn, and Pash Cracken - are well-fleshed out as characters and the political intrigue within the Rebellion, made clear through the actions of Mon Mothma, Admiral Ackbar, and Borsk Fey'lya, adds to the overall story. Stackpole's alternating perspectives during the infiltration of Coruscant can be a bit confusing, but this disorientation echoes that felt by his characters who only know their own mission parameters in order to maintain operational security. Though Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy predated this novel by five years, Stackpole's story helps to explain how the Rebellion reached those later events. While Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm and decision to excise the previous Expanded Universe removes the canonical nature of this novel, it will still entertain Star Wars fans who read it.
    • 4/5
      This was pretty good. When reading this series it is clear in the second book that the series was designed from the start to be one big story. This is opposed to many series in which the first book did well and the publisher wants more so the author finds a loose thread to pull on and branch out another book or two.
      Given the age of the book I will not worry about spoilers. This one ends with the fall of Coruscant and the leading up to it. While the actual fall of Coruscant might seem somewhat anti-climatic to some it is the work and machinations leading up to it that makes it all work. Good stuff.
    • 4/5
      Marginally better than the first Rogue Squadron book, as the dogfights take a back seat to the drama. Still, Stackpole is juggling with too many Rebel characters who frankly all talk the same way.
    • 4/5
      This was real fun. Yes, you need some suspension of disbelief for the plot and I would love for the characters to be a bit more fleshed out, but in the end, this is an action-adventure novel and I was immensely entertained reading it. And of course, there are the childhood memories, so I can't be totally objective here.
    • 3/5
      First book of the X-wing series I've read after hearing for years that they are pretty good. I'd say this lived up to my expectations.

      This is the story of the fighter squadron and their part in capturing Coruscant from Imperial control.
    • 3/5
      A disease that only attacks non-humans is causing strife and terror within the Rebel Alliance. Only Rogue Squadron stands against Director Isard's diabolical plot--but they too are riven by distrust of their XO, the former Imperial Tycho.
    • 4/5
      Good book, great ending
    • 4/5
      Sep10:Quite the good sequel. It ups the ante some with higher stakes.Characters: All the same. And still good. A couple more introduced, but nobody rounded out.Plot: Much more solid this time. Of course, tossing fighter pilots in as secret agents is absurd, but I liked the plot otherwise.Style: Still very good. Worth reading.
    • 4/5
      It was OK, but really some of their escapes are just too good to be true.
    • 5/5
      I have such a soft spot for the character of Wedge Antilles, and this book uses him excellently. It's Stackpole at his most fun.