History Literature / DarthMaulShadowHunter

''Shadow Hunter'' was re-released in 2022 as part of the Essential Legends Collection, including an unabridged audiobook narrated by Creator/SamWitwer, the voice of Darth Maul and Darth Sidious in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' and other works.

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Monchar intends to sell details of the impending Blockade to the highest bidder. Such an act of betrayal would expose not only the Blockade, but also Sidious himself (and before the Sith are ready to reveal themselves to the Jedi Order). While the Neimoidians engage their own agent to locate Monchar, Sidious sends in Maul. The hunt for Monchar will drag in both non-Jedi (Corellian information broker Lorn Pavarn and his droid I-5YQ) and Jedi (Master Anoon Bondara and his Padawan Darsha Assant).

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Hath Monchar is killed before he can sell the knowledge of the Blockade or expose the Sith. Loran Pavarn, Anoon Bondara, and Darsha Assant likewise all die. I-5YQ is betrayed by Lorn's associate Sal, who wipes the droid's memory and covets him for his own use. Finally, and worse of all, Pavarn passes on the Blockade intel to Senator Palpatine... and without knowing Palpatine is Darth Sidious.]]
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: Pavarn dies at Maul's hands believing he at least has succeeded in warning the Jedi about the Sith and the Naboo Blockade... and with no way of knowing that not only has he failed, but he unknowingly handed the evidence right into the hands of the Blockade's architect (Palpatine).]]

* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Pavarn at the end when Maul comes for him.]]

* WorthyOpponent: Maul comes to regard Bondara, Darsha, and especially Pavarn as one over the course of the novel. [[spoiler:It's why he gives Pavarn a quick death at the end rather than making him suffer.]]