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Shadow Hunter (Star Wars: Darth Maul)
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345435415
ISBN: 0345435419
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: November 27, 2001
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: November 27, 2001
Studio: Del Rey
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Editorial Review:
Here's another Star Wars spinoff novel, a brisk and extremely uncomplicated action-adventure romp set on planet Coruscant immediately before the events of The Phantom Menace. After a few setting-up exercises, it's essentially a prolonged chase sequence whose implacable pursuer is Darth Maul--the almost absurdly villainous-looking Sith Lord with the biggest lightsaber and worst makeup job in the entire saga to date.
The plot? Insidiously evil Darth Sidious is poised to launch the Naboo trade blockade featured in The Phantom Menace. But one of his alien henchmen has sneaked away to betray this scheme and must die. So must the traitor's contacts, smalltime crook Lorn Pavan and his uppity droid, I-Five. Likewise Darsha Assant, the female Jedi Knight apprentice who gets entangled with Pavan through either mind-boggling coincidence or the mysterious ways of the Force.
Michael Reaves makes a reasonably slick job of all this nonsense and is not afraid of clichés. Plenty of characters have wooden lines like "I've got a bad feeling about this," and "Too many questions, and not enough answers." Meanwhile in the Jedi council, Yoda makes characteristic remarks: "A good choice he would be... No accident this was."
Unfortunately, the well-known story line of The Phantom Menace defuses suspense in Shadow Hunter. That trade blockade has to happen despite the good folks' doomed heroics, and horrible Darth Maul (already far more powerful and deadly than the puny opposition he faces here) is fated to win out. This novel is for dedicated fans only. --David Langford
For the infamous, power-hungry Sith,
beholden to the dark side,
the time has come to rise again . . .After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Key to his scheme are the Neimoidians of the Trade Federation. Then one of his Neimoidian contacts disappears, and Sidious does not need his Force-honed instincts to suspect betrayal. He orders his apprentice, Darth Maul, to hunt the traitor down. But he is too late. The secret has already passed into the hands of information broker Lorn Pavan, which places him right on the top of Darth Maul's hit list. Then, in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewers of Coruscant, capital city of the Republic, Lorn crosses paths with Darsha Assant, a Jedi Padawan on a mission to earn her Knighthood. Now the future of the Republic depends on Darsha and Lorn. But how can an untried Jedi and an ordinary man, stranger to the powerful ways of the Force, hope to triumph over one of the deadliest killers in the galaxy?SPECIAL BONUS INSIDE--the exclusive story, "Star Wars(R) Darth Maul: Saboteur" by James Luceno, previously available in e-book format only!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Pre-prequel
In order to best appreciate the story in "Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter", it is recommended that "Darth Maul: Saboteur" be read first. Previously an ebook, it is included at the end of most publications of "Shadow Hunter". Reading "Saboteur" first allows a picture of the characters to develop in the reader's mind before the main novel.
Although menacing, the Darth Maul character portrayed in Michael Reeves' novel is flawed. Though a Sith apprentice, his greatest struggle in the book is ... Read More
Rating:  - Easy read, hard review
If you picked up a book called "Star Wars: Darth Maul, Shadow Hunter" what would you expect to read? Perhaps a book who's main character is, oh, I dunno, Darth Maul??
Yeah, me too which is why I purchased the book in the first place. After reading both of the author's Medstar: Jedi Healer books, I should have learned my lesson. Apparently the author likes to use the concept of the book (Darth Maul, Jedi Healers) as nothing more than a jumping off point for characters of his own creation. ... Read More
Rating: - Finally, some Darth Maul
We saw him briefly in Phantom Menace. Then he died. Now we have a whole book about him. I have read the book and listened to the audio. Both are excellent. They delve into his character and nearly every scene has him in it. The other characters are decent. Non jedi Lorn Pavan is a likeable anti-hero in the Han Solo mold. Thats the only problem, I think the author was thinking Han and just made up another name. The jedi padawan was kind of weak and the swift killing of her master, one of the top jedi's, ... Read More
Rating:  - big paradox
the darth maul part - very good. the rest of the book - not good. i'm not going to spoil the storry, but what darth maul was doing unsuccessfully almost during the whole book was just absurd. the biggest absurd i've ran into in a star wars novel.
Rating: - Pleasantly Surprised
I wasn't expecting much from this book quite honestly. Being that The Phantom Menace was really such a let down, mostly because of the lack of darth maul, a very promising villain, I started this book with some skepticism. Couple that with the fact that it's a prequel to TPM, the ending is more or less 'spoiled'.
But I was quite wrong. This is a VERY good star wars read that fleshes out the criminally under-utilized Darth Maul character much better than the Episode 1 film did.
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