Jedi Apprentice: The Call to Vengeance

Jedi Apprentice: The Call to Vengeance is the sixteenth in a series of young reader novels that chronicle the adventures of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi prior to Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.

Publisher's summary

Peace over Anger
Honor over Hate
Strength over Fear

Qui-Gon Jinn is a man on the edge. His heart has been shattered. His beliefs have been destroyed. And now he is dangerously close to stepping over a line that no Jedi dares to cross.

He wants revenge.

His fellow Jedi—his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Jedi Council member Mace Windu—will try to stop him. But when Qui-Gon strikes out on his own, anything can happen. Revenge is not a Jedi trait…but it is a Human one. Can Qui-Gon separate his personal feelings from his Jedi training?

Plot summary

Word of Tahl’s shocking death and the instability of New Apsolon brings Mace Windu to the planet. Qui-Gon Jinn's heart is not in his work. After the death of his truest love, he is finding it hard to continue as a Jedi Master. He grapples with the dark side as his desire for revenge against Balog dominates his thoughts. When he and his apprentice Obi-Wan are sent to a hostile planet to protect the only witness willing to testify against an evil crime family, he finds it hard to focus. But when the witness is suddenly under attack and the crime family makes a move to ensure its survival, Qui-Gon must keep the peace...and fight both the foes who attack and the enemies within. When he finally catches his quarry, he resists temptation. The Jedi successfully thwart the coup engineered by the radical absolute government, allowing New Apsolon to continue on a more honest path in redefining its government.