Side Trip

The novella, Side Trip, is the first collaboration between Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole and was published in the compilation of short stories, Tales from the Empire. The novella consists of four parts, parts one and four being written by Stackpole and parts two and three by Zahn.

Smugglers Haber Trell and Maranne Darmic and their freighter the Hopskip, while smuggling arms for the Rebels, are shanghaied by the Empire to assist helmeted figure, who claims to be the notorious bounty hunter Jodo Kast, catch his prey on Corellia. It is all part of a devious plan by Grand Admiral Thrawn that includes CorSec investigators Hal and Corran Horn, who are working undercover to nail the infamous Corellian warlord Zekka Thyne. But one slipup can get them all killed.