Star Wars - Buyers Market by Timothy Zahn

Author:Timothy Zahn [Zahn, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-09-29T03:27:55+00:00

The big shot Blackie had talked about came in right on schedule, settling his ship as close to the customs building as possible and striding the rest of the way surrounded by a wedge of heavily-armed bodyguards. The people he’d come to do business with were already there, having casually drifted in over the previous few hours.

But it wasn’t real estate they were going to be buying and selling. Not by a long shot.

“Well?” the nondescript man standing beside Lando asked.

“It’s glitterstim, all right, ” Lando confirmed sourly, taking one last look at the customs building and then moving around the corner of the warehouse they were skulking beside. “No matter how carefully they package the stuff, some of the odor always gets out. Probably being grown in secret chambers out in the woods… it’s a pain to recreate the Kessel environment for the spice spiders, but if you can pull it off there are huge profits to be made.”

Judder Page grunted. “I don’t want to know how you even know that, do I?”

“Probably not,” Lando agreed. “Your men ready?”

“Mine are,” Page said. “Question is, are yours?”

“I think so,” Lando said. “Now that the buyer and his money are here, they should be showing themselves any minute.”

The words were barely out of his mouth when, inside the junkyard’s wall, the AT-AT clumped its way into view, heading for the marsh crawler still sitting in the exit.

“I’ll be skrimped,” Page said, sounding as awestruck as Lando had ever heard the man get. “And they got it working in two days?”

“Two days,” Lando confirmed. “I’m guessing all Cravel originally wanted were the heavy lasers, probably with an eye toward mounting them and a generator on one of Blackie’s treaded vehicles. I’ve seen that approach before: a gang takes over a junkyard near a target, cobbles together just what they need for that one job, and then just leave everything but the loot behind.”

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