Star Wars - 134 - The Han Solo 02 - Hutt Gambit by A. C. Crispin

Author:A. C. Crispin [Crispin, A. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Solo; Han (Fictitious Character), Solo; Han (Fictitious Character) - Fiction
ISBN: 9780553574166
Google: w3iWrRblk0QC
Amazon: 0553574167
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 1997-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Thats correct, Fett continned. He was becoming in-trigued. If Jabba just wanted someone dead, why this elab-orate buildup? What was the Bloated One getting at?

Jabba puffed thoughtfifily on his water pipe for nearly a minute, cogitating, his bulbous eyes with their slitted pupils blinking. Do you know why I have summoned you here, bounty limiter? Im assuming its becanse you want to post a bounty, so Ill hunt down and kill someone, Fett said. Thats why people contact me.

No, Jabba said. He put the hookah aside and stared levelly at Fett, obviously getting to the point. I want to pay you to not kill someone.

The macrobinocular viewplate that was built into Fetts Mandalorian helmet included infrared vision, plus motion and sound sensors. The bounty hunter could literally see Jabba tense, and change color. This is important to him, Fett realized, surprised. Most Hutts were such phenome-nally selfsh beings that hed never heard of one willing to stick his neck out for anyone.

State your offer, Fett said.

There is an outstanding bounty of twenty thousand credits on a human who has proven very useful to me. I wish to pay you twenty-five thousand to ignore that bounty until further notice. Fett had one word for Jabba. Who?

Han Solo. Hes a good pilot, the best. He runs our spice on schedule, and the Imperials can never catch him. Hes proven extremely valuable to Desilijic. Ill pay you to stop hunting him. Boba Fett stood there in silence, thinking hard.

For the first time in years, the bounty hunter was in a quandary, torn between his duty, his need for extra credits, and his own personal desires. Jabbas offer was tempting in many ways. Boba Fetts ship, Slave I, had recently been damaged in an asteroid field, and Fett needed some rather expensive repairs to get the weapons systems back up to full capability.

On the other hand, hed been looking forward to bring-ing Solo in for a long time, ever since he and that gambler friend of his, Calrissian, had captured, drugged, and robbed the bounty hunter. Boba Fett couldnt allow two space bums to get the best of him and live . . .

On the other hand, just last week, Lord Aruk of Besadii had contacted Boba Fett in an interstellar holo-communi-eation, and told him that he was no longer willing to pay top credits for Solo. Instead, he wanted a priority live deliv-ery bounty on a Corellian woman, Bria Tharen. Hed raised the amount, too. Tile bounty on her was fifty thousand credits. And the Hutt Lord had reduced the bounty on Solo to ten thousand credits, disintegration now permitted. Ter-oenza, Fett gathered, was unaware of this change. Fifty thousand credits was the biggest bounty currently on Boba Fetts list. Hed immediately begun searching for this woman named Tharen, whom Aruk had described as being a leader in the Corellian rebel movement. The Besadii Lord said she had led a raid to Ylesia to rescue slaves, and she was also suspected of leading several space raids to free slaves bound from Ylesia to the mines of Kes-sel.

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