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Thursday, 21 July 2016

OUT THIS MONTH IN UK PAPERBACK: 'STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT: TWILIGHT COMPANY'

We're still five months away from experiencing the gritty, hip-deep-in-the-action characters and camera work of Gareth Edward's Rebel versus Empire battle for the Death Star plans that is ROGUE ONE. Until then, and to get you fully prepared for that incredible and brutal conflict ahead, why not try out the densely atmospheric war tale that is Alexander Freed's acclaimed STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT: TWILIGHT COMPANY, taking the world of populist and innovative video gaming and translating it to the kind of realism, of blood, sweat and consequences, and where people can suddenly transform into brave heroes, that can only be found in novel form, out next week in UK paperback, courtesy of ARROW BOOKS. With such similar content and atmosphere, its no surprise to me that the author has been confidently commissioned by LUCAS BOOKS to handle the official novel adaptation of the eagerly awaited lead-in movie to the original Star Wars!

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Get it here: Star Wars: Battlefront: Twilight Company: Amazon.co.uk: Alexander Freed: 9781784750046: Books

Sunday, 18 October 2015

COMING SOON: 'STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT - TWILIGHT COMPANY'

Acting as a timely companion to the upcoming, surely incredible new adrenaline-fuelled BATTLEFRONT video game, and a fine nod to the kind of tie-ins so enjoyed by fans during 1996's SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE event, Alexander Freed's canon novel of an elite group of Rebel soldiers- Twilight Company - caught in heavy and overwhelming battle against the Empire's immense armries, arrives in formidable hardback from CENTURY PUBLISHING UK this 5th November, 2015 - bringing spectacular STAR WARS universe fireworks to Bonfire Night!

Here's the publicity blurb:

A companion novel inspired by the hotly anticipated videogame Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil.

The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors.

Among the stars and across the vast expanses of space, the Galactic Civil War rages. On the battlefields of multiple worlds in the Mid Rim, legions of ruthless stormtroopers—bent on crushing resistance to the Empire wherever it arises—are waging close and brutal combat against an armada of freedom fighters. In the streets and alleys of ravaged cities, the front-line forces of the Rebel Alliance are taking the fight to the enemy, pushing deeper into Imperial territory and grappling with the savage flesh-and-blood realities of war on the ground.

Leading the charge are the soldiers—men and women, human and nonhuman—of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company. Hard-bitten, war-weary, and ferociously loyal to one another, the members of this renegade outfit doggedly survive where others perish, and defiance is their most powerful weapon against the deadliest odds. When orders come down for the rebels to fall back in the face of superior opposition numbers and firepower, Twilight reluctantly complies. Then an unlikely ally radically changes the strategic equation—and gives the Alliance’s hardest-fighting warriors a crucial chance to turn retreat into resurgence.

Orders or not, alone and outgunned but unbowed, Twilight Company locks, loads, and prepares to make its boldest maneuver—trading down-and-dirty battle in the trenches for a game-changing strike at the ultimate target: the very heart of the Empire’s military machine.

Get the book here: Star Wars: Battlefront: Twilight Company (Star Wars Battlefront Tie in): Amazon.co.uk: Alex Freed: 9781780893655: Books