After the Empire's massacre of the Jedi, one Jedi continues to fight for those who cannot fight - not knowing that he will soon face the Lord of Darkness himself. Across the galaxy, a captured Jedi is a dead Jedi, even in the nastiest underground slums of Coruscant, where Jedi Knight Jax Pavan protects the weak with the help of sneaky reporter Den Dhur and prankster droid I-5IK. But at the same time, Jax is puzzling over another problem: how to solve the mystery of his father's death and his own past? Although Jax is convinced that I-5IK knows the answers to some of these questions, he cannot imagine that the shocking truth will force him become one of the main participants in the assassination attempt on Emperor Palpatine. Worse, Darth Vader, who is tirelessly searching for Jax, is about to end his search... having achieved success. The future prepared for the brave Jedi and his loyal friends promises to be dark and short, because the most bitter truth is not a secret at all: few have entered the fight with Darth Vader... and lived to tell the tale...