CANON
Written by: Lamar Giles
Published on: August 5, 2025
Published by: Random House Worlds
Pages: 329
Timeline: 18 BBY
Key characters: Omega, Hunter, Tech, Wrecker, Phee Genoa
Era: Reign of the Empire
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Publisher’s Summary
Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, and Omega gamble on a mission to help rebuild Pabu in this thrilling adventure for The Bad Batch.
A good soldier knows that life is all about change — whether it’s on or off the battlefield. Surviving, living, means adaptation. Hunter is well acquainted with this lesson. He’s on the run from the Empire, Echo’s off on a mission with Captain Rex, and Crosshair is…still Crosshair, but amidst all the change, Hunter still has Tech, Wrecker, and Omega.
And it seems that his small family might have finally found a safe place to land, far from the increasingly vigilant eyes of the Empire: Pabu. But their potential new island home is in desperate need of resources if there is any hope for the fledgling community to recover from a devastating sea wave. That’s where Phee Genoa, self-proclaimed liberator of treasures, comes in, with a couple of jobs she swears will get them the funds they need. Despite Hunter’s concern with Phee’s precarious plans, the rest of the crew is fine following her lead.
Things go wrong almost immediately, as Phee’s droid blows the crew’s cover at a high-stakes auction, and they barely make it out with the relic they’d been paid to acquire. Hunter insists they finish their first mission and deliver the relic before taking on more work, but Phee and the others push forward with a second job: ferrying a couple on the run, one of whom is due to give birth at any moment. Hunter worries what they’re risking, especially when their mysterious new passengers cling to lies and secrets that trace back to an Imperial Security Bureau officer hot on their trail.
As Hunter tries to get the crew back on a stable, safe path far, far away from anything to do with the Empire’s watchdogs, their overlapping missions only invite more danger and chaos. On the verge of failing both their desperate passengers and their community on Pabu, the Batch must remember that the only way they succeed, the only way they survive to fight another day, is by trusting each other.
Quick Summary
The people of Pabu are still reeling from the natural disaster that devastated their home. In an effort to help them rebuild, Phee has recruited Tech, Omega, Hunter, and Wrecker to accompany her on a series of missions to fund Pabu’s reconstruction.
Clone Force 99 is in for more than they bargained for, however. Little do they know their next mission is going to get a little … complicated.
Book Details
Audience: Adult
Author: Lamar Giles
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Publication date: August 5, 2025
Language: English
ISBN-10: 593874463
ISBN-13: 978-0593874462
Pages: 329 (hardcover)
