Wraith Squadron: Star Wars Legends (Wraith Squadron)

Aaron Allston

Feb 2024 · Star Wars: Wraith Squadron - Legends Book 1 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Marc Thompson

About this audiobook

As the battle against the Empire rages, a new crew of X-wing fighters risk life and machine on a daring undercover mission and emerge as the Rebel Alliance’s elite strike force.

It is Wedge Antilles’s boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-wing fighters, its pilots drawn from the dregs of other units, castoffs and rejects being given one last chance. But before the new pilots can complete their training, the squadron’s base is attacked by former Imperial admiral Trigit and Wraith Squadron is forced to swing into action—taking over an Imperial warship and impersonating its crew. 

The mission: to gain vital intelligence about Trigit’s secret weapons, to sabotage the admiral’s plans, and to lure him into an Alliance trap. However, the high-stakes gamble pits Wraith Squadron’s ragtag renegades against the Empire’s most brilliant master of guile and deception.

Are they up to the challenge?

If not, the penalty is instant death.

Ratings and reviews

Good Star Wars book, that explores a bit in the area of mental challenges that different people encounter. 4 star was because there are a handful of star wars books I like a little better, and because as an Engineer, some of the quick builds were oversimplified for me specifically - anyone else would just enjoy it.

Always loved this series. Having an unabridged audiobook of it just makes my day. The voice acting is as always wonderful.

I waited so long for this book to be unabridged looking for for the rest of the series to be unabridged and hopefully these young Vang series to be on a unabridged as well

About the author

Aaron Allston was the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen Star Wars novels as well as the Doc Sidhe novels, which combine 1930s-style hero-pulp fiction with Celtic myth. In addition to being a writer, he was a game designer, and in 2006 he was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame. Allston died in 2014.