Legacies of Betrayal (The Horus Heresy Book 31)

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The Spy Who Knew Too Much” by Howard Blum is a well researched and exceptionally organized true story of CIA agent Pete Bagley🕵️‍♂️ Meanwhile, American agents were compromised, so it seemed like there might well be a mole - Nosenko or someone else. In the next several years, Edward Lee Howard, Aldrich Ames, and Robert Hanssen were revealed to be working for the Soviets. Bagley continued to have doubts about Nosenko.

The late Allston (sadly, he passed away in 2014) wrote a few of the books in the NJO series, and I considered them to be some of the better-written ones. His strengths: he could tie numerous ongoing storylines together seamlessly, which is something not all authors can do. Others in the series tried but the results were clunky and confusing. Allston was a great writer, and he will be missed. Nelani Dinn. Oh dear. I can almost hear the scissors at work. Cutting through the cardboard. She is... Jedi. Idealistic. Beautiful. In love with Jacen. When she was described I almost immediately envisioned her in the Trekkie red shirt. Modest yet form fitting, of course. And I gave her a generous 50% chance of surviving the end of the novel. She did not. And I was not sorry. I mean seriously, she was designed to die by Jacen's hand as a symbol for his rite of passage to Sith-hood and that was it. No reader with a decent sense of drama could avoid seeing it coming. Jacen (pronounced “Jason”, fight me) is accompanied by his padawan learner Ben Skywalker, Luke Skywalker’s 13-year-old son. I was frustrated by the development of Jacen, simply because at the beginnning of the book he was finally the jedi I wanted him to be in the last couple of series. However, since I already knew his fate in the series, I understand and accept what happened.Meanwhile, Jacen is undergoing a very dangerous shift in his philosophical world-view, initiated by a mysterious woman who may be a long-lost Dark Jedi named Lumiya (first appearing in the 1981 Marvel Comics “Star Wars” series, issue #56). His movement toward the Dark Side is progressing, and it is leading him to a point of no return. Unfortunately, he is also responsible for the training of his cousin, 13-year-old Ben Skywalker. Master Luke senses a disturbance, but he is unaware of what is happening. Comparing this turn to others in the franchise makes it come off even worse. Episode III establishes Palpatine has pretty much been working on turning Anakin to the dark side ever since he met him as a child. Befriending him, acting as a kind of paternal figure and confident, isolating and alienating him from his friends and loved ones, filling his mind with half truths, and leveraging the belief that Anakin's wife will die without Palpatine's help. Say what you will about the prequels but Anakin becoming Vader was completely believable.

Pete Bagley became a Spy for the CIA after having worked with Army Intelligence during the Second World War. He spent most of his years working in European capitals being a political operative. But he never was the "big" deal, at best he could become a section head at a secondary office. During his middle years he helped to bring in two KGB operatives.

Act 3 culminates in a big reveal (dang I’m trying to say as little as possible) but suffice to say it has something to do with the title of this book. “Betrayal.” It also ends with Han and Leia getting directly involved in things they really should be avoiding. Meanwhile, Luke is a guy who isn’t very good at his job. Jacen is an idiot whom Luke is 100% responsible for. While Jacen is botching up hostage negotiations and letting people blow themselves up, literally no one thinks, “Gee, maybe Master Skywalker should know this?” No. I’m sure someone would have informed Luke about the activities of his Jedi and what they were up to. It’s utterly STOOPID that he isn’t keeping a watchful, fatherly eye over the very person he is letting EDUCATE HIS SON! This arc is literally called “Legacy of the Force,” and Luke would have known that his “legacy” needs to be carefully trained. This is where Aaron Allston's Legacy of the Force: Betrayal comes in. Where Kylo Ren is flat, uninteresting and bland, Jacen Solo is nuanced, complex and prodigious. Where the new movies' Luke is a batty, frightened old man, the late EU version of Luke is wise, deep and paternal. Without intending for this review to be a bash on Disney's interpretation of the Star Wars franchise, I feel like in 2022 this novel shows me more than ever before what I wanted the new movies to be. Sometimes the truth is too hard to bear especially when it is found in an agency that is supposed to work for your country and not against it.

We discover that Bagley was once a star agent turned mole suspect amongst the agency. Ultimately his name was cleared but the damage was done. Years later he is determined to uncover what happened to the deceased agent while at the same time clearing his own tarnished reputation and rekindling his relationship with his estranged daughter as well.The book’s plot reflects the current events of the world in 2006: The Yuuzhan Vong War is over, and the galaxy is beginning to rebuild. The Galactic Alliance has been formed, out of the ashes of the New Republic, as a way to unite the vastly different worlds. Sadly, only a few years in, and unrest and disunity is already starting to fracture the government.

The trio end up meeting a mysterious woman named Brisha Syo who wants Jacen to travel to her home on a remote asteroid near Bimmiel. Revelations ensue. Turns out, Brisha Syo is actually the Dark Lady Lumiya, who appeared in the Marvel Star Wars comics that were released between 1977 and 1986. Lumiya was originally a young Rebel woman named Shira Brie who had a sort of romance with Luke Skywalker, and then was shot down by Luke because the Force told him that she was an enemy. And surprise, she had been an Imperial spy all along! She was saved by the use of cybernetics and trained in the dark side of the Force by Darth Vader, she wants revenge on Luke Skywalker, and she has a very distinctive outfit complete with a lightwhip instead of a lightsaber. I just felt like the argument wasn't presented well and Jacen's sudden turn and flat-out murder of his random friend was really sudden and weird. Chris Wraight is the author of the Horus Heresy novel Scars, the novella Brotherhood of the Storm and the audio drama The Sigillite. For Warhammer 40,000 he has written the Space Wolves novels Blood of Asaheim and Stormcaller, and the short story collection Wolves of Fenris, as well as the Space Marine Battles novels Wrath of Iron and Battle of the Fang. Additionally, he has many Warhammer novels to his name, including the Time of Legends novel Master of Dragons, which forms part of the War of Vengeance series. Chris lives and works near Bristol, in south-west England. I enjoyed this novella. No mind blowing plot twists, but a good insight on White Scars, the way they fight, think, their traditions. Loved the fact that they were presented to us from different perspectives - both from inside the legion and from an outside observer. urn:oclc:record:1392416246 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier legaciesofbetray0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s22rtr7fpqv Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781849708364Stranger things than xenos and mutants dwell in the dark places between the stars – things known only too well to the inhabitants of Davin. Cult priest Thoros calls upon the favour of his patron gods to aid him in casting out the pretenders and non-believers, for only the true disciples of Chaos can be allowed to rule the galaxy... [1] Related Articles Angleton's unbridled and unauthorized quest for the mole modeled and motivated Pete Bagley's 'private enterprise' operation, although Bagley was more circumspect in his accusations and conclusions. Nevertheless, Bagley's evidence consisted, if Blum's account here is correct, almost entirely of conjecture, speculation, and unproved hypotheses. Bagley was so obsessive in uncovering the mole at the heart of CIA counterintelligence that he resorted time after time to confirmation bias, mostly I think to be able to say he had found a solution to the CIA's mole problem. There is a lot of stuff going on in this novel, as it is setting the stage for the following eight books. For the most part, Allston does a stellar job. This book is very clear when it comes to showing Jacen's character change throughout the story. At the beginning Jacen is very brave and selfless towards his use of the force. He also shows a huge understanding of the way the force works. After his meeting with Lumiya he sees the force as a tool for his rising to power. His views become very misshapen and this troubles Luke. An assault is planned on Corellia, one that is generating controversy as Corellians (including Han) currently living on Coruscant are facing strong anti-Corellian sentiments by other Coruscanti. Acts of protest and other violent outbursts are happening more frequently. The GA has started branding Corellian troublemakers as “terrorists”.