These books are the books that feel the most Star Wars to me out of all the Star Wars books. Daley does a wonderful job of mixing humor and action, and I feel like he does a good job of painting Han as a conflicted person - he's both plausibly the guy that Obi-Wan hires out of the cantina and someone with enough decency that sets up his change of heart in the original movie without making him already totally a good guy who's down to fight for a cause.

It helps that Daley created a kind of borderline cyberpunk corner of the galaxy for the stories. A place that's not exactly the Empire, but is definitely a corporate run shithole. Perfect for a somewhat gray protagonist, but with plenty of room to be better than the other guy, so to speak.

Here, his primary motivations are money, his ship, and, after several things go very wrong, saving Chewbacca. This involves some very cinematic (and at times humorous) action sequences, a bit of cleverness, and an overall satisfying story.