I really haven’t hid the fact that Mercy Kill is an upcoming Expanded Universe novel I’m incredibly excited about. Luckily for me (and you?), Star Wars Books is beginning to drop mini excerpts from the book. The first one features the youngest of the Antilles Spawn, Myri.

He crawled southward, keeping well below the trench lip above.

Myri followed, occasionally peeking up above the rim to see her surroundings. “My father was on the Death Star Trench Run. You know, the famous one. Me, I get the General’s Basement Trench Crawl.”

X-Wing: Mercy Kill is due out August 7th and is the first novel in the series to be published in thirteen years.