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Brakiss, known as the Dark Jedi student expelled from the Jedi Academy where Luke Skywalker was taught, has become a master of the Dark Side of the Force. He now runs his own sinister institution, the Shadow Academy, training a legion of Dark Jedi for the Empire.
The academy’s most ambitious assignment is to kidnap the heirs of the Skywalker bloodline and convert them to the Dark Side. Brakiss’s plans must outwit even Darth Vader and the Emperor, challenging the very limits of Sith power.
First publish date: October 1999
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Kevin J. Anderson
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