Battle Surgeons: Star Wars (Medstar, Book I)

ByMichael Reaves & Steve Perry

Release Date: 2004-06-29
Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi

Score: 4

From 23 Ratings

Description

As Civil War between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy, nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on the swamp world of Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own . . .

A surgeon who covers his despair with wise-cracks; another who faces death and misery head-on, venting his emotions through beautiful music . . . A nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor . . . A Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master . . . These are the core members of a tiny med unit serving the jungle world of Drongar, where battle is waged over the control of a priceless native plant, and an endless line of medlifters brings in the wounded and dying -- mostly clone troopers, but also soldiers of all species.

While the healers work desperately to save lives, others plot secretly to profit from the war -- either by dealing on the black market or by manipulating the events of the war itself. In the end, though, all will face individual tests, and only those of compassionate hearts and staunch spirits can hope to survive to fight another day.

Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

Reviews

A pretty good Clone Wars novel
3
By ryan123450
I didn't have high hopes for this book. I was expected to slug through it, but it was a surprisingly quick read. I would have enjoyed a more central story than secondary and new characters on a medical base, but for what it was it was good. I figured out the identity of the mystery sabateor pretty early on, but it was interesting watching how it all proceeded.

Overall a pretty good Clone Wars story.