WARS STAR THE RISE AND FALL OF DARTH VADER by ryder windham New York Toronto London Auckland Sydney Mexico City New Delhi Hong Kong Buenos Aires SCHOLASTIC INC
For Ralph McQuarrie
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Sincere thanks to the screenwriters of the Star Wars films George Lucas Lawrence Kasdan Leigh Brackett and Jonathan Hales I am also in debt to Terry Brooks James Luceno Kilian Plunkett Daniel Wallace and the late Brian Daley and Archie Goodwin whose respective Star Wars books comics and radio dramatizations provided provided material for various sequences in this novel Special thanks to Dorothy Windham for research assistance to Violet Windham for never letting me win a lightsaber fight to Anne Windham for helping me in every way to make time to complete this book and to Star Wars fans Titus DosRemedios and Peter Ricci for sharing their ideas and concerns about Darth Vader As ever big thanks to David Levithan at Scholastic and to Jonathan Rinzler and Leland Chee at Lucasfilm
