Del Rey, 1980, $6.99, ISBN 0-345-37980-2, 564 pages, paperback

A 50-cent price tag in the discount bin overcame my usual objection to “milled” books based on movies and TV shows. I say “milled” because 99% of such books are cranked out without much thought or originality. Then again, I’ve read other Daley novels, and 50 cents for three seemed a good price.

Han Solo at Star’s End, Han Solo’s Revenge, and Han Solo and the Lost Legacy are individual novels, not a trilogy. Each takes Han, Chewbacca the Wookie, and the starship Millennium Falcon on various smuggling missions that all go bad. This gets them into a cascading series of further compromising situations requiring a combination of bluff, smarts, and blaster fire to keep their ship and lives.

The action moves well enough, the other characters sufficiently gimmicky to get out of some Han-created jams, and the prose flows well. I guess that’s why there’s 2 million copies sold (says the company).

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