Zam Wesell, the short-lived bounty hunter and assassin-for-hire from The Phantom Menace, returns with perpetual colleage/nemesis Jango Fett in Zam Wesell, a sequel to Jango Fett.

OK, so no one stretched a brain muscle in titling these books. The story, too, is fairly lackluster; the two mercenaries, after competing to acquire a specific artifact in the previous book, now learn it could destroy a world and, acting entirely out of character, decide to play hero without any chance of financial gain. Sure, there's some nice interaction between Zam and Jango, but since we know how that story ends, it carries little weight.

Illustrations by Ted Naifeh are at least superior to the previous book's art, so there's something. But this brief tale doesn't add much to the Star Wars mythos, nor does it give us much more insight into the poorly developed title character and her relationship with the enigmatic Jango. It also makes you ponder the supposed wisdom of the Jedi Council which, when faced with a world-shattering catastrophe, send a lone Jedi to look into the matter.

This is for series completists only.