One of the things I've really liked about this series is how different each book is, while still staying true to the series theme. The first book was like Top Gun, the second an espionage thriller, and now in the third instalment, we've got a courtroom drama à la John Grisham. The Krytos Trap sees Corran Horn, presumed dead at the end of Wedge's Gamble, a prisoner of Ysanne Isard in her infamous Lusankya prison where she turns people into sleeper agents who later betray their allies without knowing what they're doing.

The rest of Rogue Squadron is caught up in the very high-profile criminal trial of Tycho Celchu, long-suspected to be an Imperial spy and presumed murderer of Corran Horn. All of this while the New Republic government is struggling to provide enough bacta to deal with the Krytos virus unleashed on the planet to kill non-humans by Ysanne Isard and Kirtan Loor is running a counter-insurgency programme.

Yeah, things are really looking up for the New Republic after taking Coruscant.

I found this book a bit tougher to get through than the others - I expected that Tycho would eventually be exonerated because the evidence was a bit TOO stacked against him and also that Corran would escape, so a lot of the book was just getting through the slower build-up while waiting for it to eventually get to the really good stuff - Corran's escape (finding out a bit more about the Jedi in the process) and Tycho's trial. The ending was worth the wait, though. And while not quite the cliff-hanger of the previous book, it certainly leaves you with something to look forward to for the next one - it's time to take on Ysanne Isard.