

All the prisoners are former and current members of Black Sun and deadly gang that has no stake in the war at hand. Wedge the leader of the Rogue Squadron, proposes taking Coruscant, and is backed but they have a different way than he imagined, freeing prisoners from a moon that the prisoners have taken over. The Plot: Corran Horn the stand out pilot of Rogue Squadron, investigates why one of his pilots never returned from his trip, he ends up having a near miss and learning that Jace’s missing could be due to a spy in Rogue Squadron. The Kyrtos virus is explained more in The Kyrtos Trap, which is book three in the series. I have read this novel before and the set up for the next one is one of my favorites, because of what the Imperials set up for the Rebels. I thought the war games are the standout in this book, does the potential for harm, outweigh the potential for peace. This novel did bring up the topic of inter-species sex, which they don’t go to far butI thought for a Star Wars novel they went farther than I would have thought. Wedge’s Gamble refers to two things a plan to bring criminal’s from Black Sun to give the Imperials trouble on Coruscant and the undercover operation to take down the twin shields. The last X-wing novel Rogue Squadron review, I used a Tom Cruise movie to describe it as Top Gun, this novel I would describe as Mission Impossible.


Wedge’s Gamble is book two in the X-wing Saga series that is a part of the Star Wars Legends series ( Star Wars Legends is a division that was considered cannon, but with The Force Awakens not following the trajectory of The established novels they were called Star Wars Legends). Stackpole takes the X-wing pilots out of the X-wing and has them go undercover on Coruscant.
