About the book: 2017 / For the entire Galaxy, Anakin Skywalker died on Coruscant. To some extent this is true. From the boiling lava of Mustafar rose an eerie black ghost, once the most powerful knight in the history of the Jedi Order, and now a disciple of the dark side, a terrible Sith lord, the punishing right hand of the Emperor. Tricked, driven to madness, and ultimately destroyed by the manipulations of the dark lord Sidious, Anakin Skywalker died... but Darth Vader lives on. Meanwhile, the Jedi who miraculously survived the day of Order 66 are turning into helpless prey, hunted throughout the Galaxy. But the greatest danger to them is not the clones turned into stormtroopers, or even the Emperor, but the swift and deadly scarlet blade of Darth Vader, seeking quenching for the broken heart and poisoned soul of its owner.