Here is the untold story of the events that took place between the movies "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". It is a novel in which Darth Vader still lives--and battles a villain as powerful and evil as himself.
Shadows of the Empire illuminates the shadowy outlines of a criminal conspiracy that exists in the background of the events in the movies, ruled by a character new to us. Prince Xizor is a mastermind of evil who dares to oppose one of the best-known fictional villains of all time: Darth Vader. The story involves all the featured Star Wars movie characters, plus Emperor Palpatine and, of course, Lord Vader himself.