Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders is the seventh book in the young-readers Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear series.
Publisher's summary
Uncle Hoole's idea of a vacation is visiting the palace of Jabba the Hutt. Of course, it's a working vacation. Hoole wants to study the B'omarr monks who live in tunnels beneath the palace. If Jabba isn't enough to give Zak and Tash nightmares, the monks should do it. The most enlightened monks don't have bodies. They're just brains in jars. Brains in jars that walk around on robotic legs. Worst of all, one of the monks is mad—not just angry-mad, but out-of-his-mind mad. And if Tash isn't careful, she might lose her head.
Plot summary
Still on the run from the Empire, Mammon Hoole, Tash and Zak Arranda seek assistance from Jabba the Hutt. While at Jabba's palace, a murderer who carves a "K" into his victims is imprisoned. A prisoner tricks Zak into believing that he is innocent, and Zak lets him escape; this is presumed to be the same murderer. Later, Zak thinks he sees Tash kill someone and carve the same K. He uncovers Jabba's racket of using a treacherous B'omarr monk to surgically transplant the brains of wanted criminals into new bodies. Zak discovers that the brain of the murderous criminal Karkas was placed in Tash's body, while his sister's disembodied brain was placed in a spider-like droid. With the help of Uncle Hoole, the B'omarr monks reverse the process, and the Arrandas are on their way.
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