Hard Merchandise: Star Wars Legends (The Bounty Hunter Wars) (Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Wars Book 3) by K. W. Jeter
Author:K. W. Jeter [Jeter, K. W.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307796486
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 2011-06-28T00:00:00+00:00
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âWeâve found them.â
Those words came from the comm unit speaker in Kuat of Kuatâs private quarters. The felinx watched from its silken-lined basket beneath Kuatâs lab bench as he turned toward the voice of the absent Kodir of Kuhlvult, security head for all of Kuat Drive Yards.
âIâm not so much concerned about âthem.â The person we need to locate is Boba Fett.â Kuat regarded the view of stars and construction docks visible from the curving bank of transparisteel panels near the bench. âIf you havenât found him, I donât even want to hear your report.â
âDonât worry,â said Kodir. âI wouldnât have put the link through if I hadnât succeeded at the task given to me.â
Kuat made no reply. Even though Kodir wasnât physically present at the Kuat Drive Yards corporate headquarters, he had as clear an image of her as if she were standing before him. She had all the haughty bearing of a member of one of Kuatâs ruling families, combined with the intimidatingly honed athletic grace that had made her such a suitable candidate for the position she now held. That, plus a sharp-edged mental acuity equal to his own, evoked a small measure of unease in Kuat. In truth, heâd had a better personal relationship with Fenald, his previous security head; the only problem being that Fenald had been a traitor, to both Kuat and to Kuat Drive Yards, by being part of the scheme to wrest control of the corporation away from him and turn it over to the greediest and most ambitious factions among the ruling families. If it hadnât been for Kodir of Kuhlvult, Fenald and the conspirators heâd fallen in with would very likely have succeeded in their plansâand the corporation that Kuat of Kuat and his predecessors had treasured and protected for so many generations would now be on its way to utter ruin. No one from the planet Kuatâs other ruling families had the experience and cunning to circumvent all of Emperor Palpatineâs schemes to break Kuat Drive Yardsâ independence and make it a mere component of the Empire. So Kodir had earned both Kuatâs respect and his trust, no matter how much her tough, even brutal mannerisms grated against his own instincts. Itâs a brutal universe, Kuat had told himself more than once. And he had certainly played his own hard game of survival in it. Perhaps what disturbed him about Kodir was a certain essential resemblance to his own ruthlessness in service to the corporation.
âSo now we know where Boba Fett is.â Kuat spoke into the comm unit mike on top of the lab bench. âIs he still aboard the ship called the Houndâs Tooth?â
âThatâs how I found him.â A tone of self-satisfaction was audible in Kodirâs voice. âThe Houndâs Tooth was spotted by one of our paid spies, at the edge of one of the remoter border systems. Then it vanished again; obviously, Boba Fett was piloting a course designed to throw off any trackers. But the sighting
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