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Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars: The Mandalorian Armor
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Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars: The Mandalorian Armor
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Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars: The Mandalorian Armor

Written by K. W. Jeter

Narrated by Anthony Heald

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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He's the most feared and successful bounty hunter in the galaxy. He is Boba Fett, and even the most hardened criminals tremble at his name. Now he faces the deadliest challenge of his infamous career--an all-out war against his most dangerous enemies.

As the Rebellion gathers force, Prince Xizor proposes a cunning plan to the Emperor and Darth Vader: smash the power of the Bounty Hunters Guild by turning its members against each other. Only the strongest and most ruthless will survive, and they can be used against the Rebellion. It's a job for the fiercely independent Boba Fett, who jumps at the chance to destroy his rivals. But Fett soon realizes the game is rigged, as he finds himself the target of murderous factions, criminal conspiracies, and the evil at the Empire's dark heart. Boba Fett has always finished first. And in this game, anything less is death.

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Release dateFeb 20, 2007
ISBN9780553754872
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Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars: The Mandalorian Armor
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K. W. Jeter

K. W. Jeter is the author of Infernal Devices, Morlock Night, the cyberpunk novel Dr. Adder, noir sequels to Blade Runner, as well as dark fantasy and other visionary science fiction. A native of California, he currently lives in Ecuador.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A significant part of my childhood has passed by reading this book. It is the best!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very good book. Narration could be better, character voices blended too much. Well written.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The Bounty Hunter Wars, Book One: The Mandalorian Armor (1998)("Star Wars" novel)K.W. JeterBook one of "Bounty Hunter Wars" trilogy. Focuses on Boba Fett and other bounty hunters, many of whom were first seen briefly in The Empire Strikes Back (including Bossk, Dengar, Zuckuss, and IG-88). Story switches back and forth between the present day (events occurring "during" Return of the Jedi, but after the Boba Fett's falling into the Sarlacc creature during the big "rescue of Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt" scene early in the film) and several years in the past ("just after the events of Star Wars: A New Hope"). In the present, Boba Fett is barely alive after his encounter with the Sarlacc (having literally blown his way out of the creature's stomach). He is found dying in the desert by Dengar. With the aid of two wandering medical droids, formerly part of Jabba's large assortment, he tries to save Boba Fett (and to keep those who would prefer Fett dead from killing him) for his own reasons. They are also joined by Neelah, a former slave dancing girl of Jabba's with only a partial memory. All she knows is that she had a past before winding up in Jabba's palace and that Boba Fett knows something about it. In the past scenes, Boba Fett is hired to infiltrate the Bounty Hunter's Guild and to destroy it from within by turning the forces within it against each other. He is hired by Prince Xizor (who was introduced in the novel Shadows of the Empire) as part of plan to benefit the Emperor (and, secretly, Xizor himself), while a skeptical Darth Vader watches on but has to focus most of his attention on tracking down and destroying the Rebel Alliance (the Emperor and Vader appear in only chapter of this novel, however it is lengthy and quite singificant to the story). The Bounty Hunter's Guild is led by the elder Trandosian, Cradossk, father of Bossk. Already rivals, Bossk comes to hate Boba Fett even more for what he ends up doing to the Guild, which plays out many years later in the "present day" scenes of this trilogy of novels.While I probably wouldn't count this novel as one of my favorite Star Wars novels, it did succeed in holding my interest. Jeter does a pretty good job of depicting the various bounty hunters and their different personalities. He does an especially good job with Fett himself (remember, this novel trilogy was written prior to Star Wars: Episode Two - Attack of the Clones, which introduced us to Boba Fett's father, Jango Fett, and showed us Boba Fett as the cloned child of Jango). The focus of this trilogy is very much on the "bad guys". Indeed, outside of a few brief references (and one key tantalizing mystery pointing back to the murder of Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle at the hands of the stormtroopers in A New Hope), the regular principle Star Wars characters (Luke, Han, Leia, etc.) don't appear at all. Instead, our primary characters are Boba Fett, Dengar, and Neelah. Therefore, at times I did have a bit of a hard time bringing myself to care too much as to what happened to these characters (as none of them are "good guys" in the typical sense). But, like I said, Jeter did a good enough job with the various personalities and his weaving of the various elements of the Star Wars mythos to keep my attention for the most part. About the only character I had a hard time reading about for very long was a new spider like character named Kud'ar Mub'at, the "middle man" of sorts between Fett and Xizor. An extrememly bizarre creature, it would take me way too long to go into very much detail about him, here. For more information on him, see this site. (Finished reading 5/15/07)
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is one of my favorite Star Wars novels. The story started out as interesting and somewhat intriguing to me and then got better and better until I couldn't put it down. When I bought the book I was hoping for lots of action, a story centered on Boba Fett, and some new bounty hunter back story. What I got was all three and then some! I love the way the author delves into the psych of each individual bounty hunter and I really enjoyed some of the scenes inside Slave I. If you are a Star Wars fan looking for something fun and fresh that you can read in a day or two because of the entertaining story line, consider Star Wars The Mandalorian Armor.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Let's face it, Star Wars expanded universe novels aren't the peak of literary excellence. However, like most of the ones I've attempted, this one was readable. Not particularly good, but readable. The plot was disjointed, full of holes, and predictable to whatever extent the holes allowed. The characters were two-dimensional, and the fan-service of having Boba Fett be as unrealistically indestructible as he was made it all too easy to know the outcome. That said, it gave me something non-addictive to read, and while I wasn't particularly impressed, at no time did I feel the compulsion to fling this book into the wall. Quite possibly due to low expectations from the outset.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I will admit wholeheartedly that I am the biggest Star Wars geek out there. Between thousands and thousands of action figures (I even own an entire legion of stormtrooper action figures....Caldor's had gone out of business and I hit every single one in the region to buy them up.), more displays than a girl should rightly own and more than my fair share of battle scars from attempting to build a Death Star out of junkyard scraps, I've still got time to read the hundreds of Star Wars novels out there.I've read this particular series once before...But, after experiencing another surge in interest with Boba Fett, I had to pick them up again. Jeter is probably my least favourite Star Wars author....He repeatedly uses words and phrases that don't quite fit to the character who's uttering them (and the repeated use of the word "barve" just makes me want to scream) and he seems to take personalities as things you can just throw around from character to character...But, despite all of that, I enjoy the basic storyline in the book. I can manage to get around the various nuances that irritate me by retelling it in my head as I go along, but other Star Wars "purists" may not be able to handle it. Either way - it's still a fun read. And even brings Xizor back into action for a while.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The Mandalorian Armor is the first book in the Bounty Hunter Wars series. The key focuses of this first novel are; the background of Boba Fett, the events that led to the dissolution of the Bounty Hunter's Guild, certain aspects of the Imperial Court. As the title might suggest, this book focuses more heavily on the Bounty Hunters than other conventional Star Wars novels might.There are discrepancies in the characterisations and the back story of certain characters, Prince Xixor is more hot blooded, Dengar is less of the Imperial Super-Soldier that he was described as in other works, Boba Fett is more talkative than he's ever been. There are other divergences as well, but all are forgiveable as quirks of writing style, a failing of a character's memory, odd behaviour can be attributed to stress or emotion.It's a good enough book, the stories it tells from the character's pasts are entertaining, the look inside the Imperial Court is interesting; I just wouldn't recommend it for any other than true fans of Star Wars, as other than that it's a decidedly average work of Science Fiction.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Average Star Wars story