Scoundrels Star Wars by Timothy Zahn

Author:Timothy Zahn [Zahn, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Star Wars, 0 ABY
ISBN: 9780345536570
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Dozer settled the airspeeder down onto the rooftop landing area half a block from the Lulina Crown Hotel and cut the engine and lights.

“In position,” Winter reported into her comlink. She listened a moment, then nodded. “Okay. Let us know when.”

She clicked off and put it away. “The others are heading in,” she told Dozer. “Lando will call when he wants us to make our move.”

Dozer nodded, staring through the gathering darkness at the entrance to the Lulina Crown’s airspeeder garage floor. “Great,” he muttered.

“You ready for this?”

Dozer clenched his teeth. No, he kriffing well wasn’t ready for this. And if Winter had any brains, she wouldn’t be ready, either.

Because that was a Falleen in there. A Falleen. More than that, a Falleen who’d already once brought Dozer to the edge of saying things he didn’t want to say.

And he’d done it just by smiling, asking nicely, and filling Dozer’s lungs with biochemical poison.

Dozer had always prided himself on being in control. Always. Even when he was working for someone else, there were still important bits of freedom that he possessed and would never give up. He was the one who chose whether to obey questionable or dangerous orders. He was the one who decided when and how to close the deal he needed to close. He was the one who knew when he needed to stick with it and when he needed to bail.

With the Falleen, he no longer had those freedoms. The Falleen could take all of them away from him.

He looked sideways at Winter. She was gazing straight ahead at the garage entrance, but he knew she could feel his eyes on her.

And there was no fear in her face. Nothing but calmness and determination.

Dozer felt his lip twist. She was barely half his age. Certainly no more than half his size. But even she should be smart enough to be concerned about the odds of going up against a Black Sun official and his bodyguards.

Maybe she was nervous. Maybe she just wasn’t showing it.

Or maybe she just didn’t care. Maybe all she cared about was getting the job done.

And Dozer would be damned if he let a half-baked girl show him up.

In fact, come to think of it, the whole bunch of them had been pretty much ignoring him from the day this whole thing started. He’d been scheduled as front man, and then Calrissian had showed up and been handed the job. He’d expected to have to boost airspeeders, but Eanjer had just gone out and rented the things. Aside from the Z-95 and that other job Han had asked him to do, he’d basically done nothing to earn his slice of the pie except pass out bribes that everyone knew Villachor’s people wouldn’t even take.

Well, that was going to change. He, Dozer Creed, was going to make Eanjer’s 163 million look like pocket change. And when he did, the others would treat him with more respect. A lot more respect.

“Yeah,” he growled to Winter. “I’m ready.

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