Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter, Book 1: The Mandalorian Armor

By: K. W. Jeter

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's Summary

He is Boba Fett, the most feared and successful bounty hunter in the galaxy, and even the most hardened criminals tremble at his name. Now he faces the deadliest challenge of his infamous career: an all-out war against his most dangerous enemies.

As the Rebellion gathers force, Prince Xizor proposes a cunning plan to the Emperor and Darth Vader: smash the power of the Bounty Hunters Guild by turning its members against each other. Only the strongest and most ruthless will survive, and they can be used against the Rebellion. It's a job for the fiercely independent Boba Fett, who jumps at the chance to destroy his rivals. But Fett soon realizes the murderous factions, criminal conspiracies, and the evil at the Empire's dark heart. Boba Fett has always finished first. And in this game, anything less is death.

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Filling in the Gaps

Although I am a big fan of Star Wars, I have not read all the books, comics etc. So there is alot of back story to discover. Boba Fett is one of the best characters. Even delivering a serious appearence in the Legacy of the Force series (which I highly recommend), The Bounty Hunter series is a fantastic addition to my library. Most of the story spread across the New Hope and Return of the Jedi timeline.

The character development, and narration of the book is fantastic.

5 of 6 people found this review helpful

Abridged audiobooks are the terrible

The story was ok. I guess. It’s hard to tell since it’s abridged. I really don’t like Anthony’s “range” of voices.

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

background noises are awful

I don't know who decided what the background noises where going to be but that person should be fired. like in the opening scene you hear jungle noises that make it slightly hard to listen to the story and it turns out they are on tatooine. so this guy is searching wreckage on tatooine?? All I can hear is birds chirping and monkeys screeching. i listened to the whole thing and the story wasn't that bad but I wont be dl any more bc the background noises where that bad

Very poor narration

The story seems OK, but I couldn't make it more than a chapter with the poor narration. The women sound ridiculous and Darth Vader sounds like a character from a Star Wars mockery.

very good

well read, and a great continuation of the what happens to Fett, can't wait to read the otthers

if you dig star wars,bounty hunters in particular

this is the books for you,great peripheral story with great effects i think,buy it won't be sorry

bounty hunter

This was a short story.
I just hope the next two are longer.
the narration was ok but a little subdued.
I think the dancer they picked up is Mera Jade. the emperor's hand.
(spoiler) they have to survived the explosion.

Good book

the only issue I had with the audible version of this book is that, at times, the background sound effects were so loud that you couldn't hear the narrator.

awesome book. awesome presentation. . .. loved it

felt like a movie in my mind. highly recommended........will definitely be listening to many more

Headphone users beware

Music is incredibly loud and some sound effects will blast and destroy your ears. Headphone users beware.

Nothing happened...

The entire book was talking about how cool boba fett was, while boba fett did literally nothing of note, in fact the only thing that happened was a guy found boba fett at the start. Then the rest was different people talking about how cool he was. If he's so cool make him do something

boba fett!!

everyone's favourite bounty hunter! A great 'read!' and highly addictive! definitely going to get the others in the series