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Star Wars - Death Troopers

  • 2009 first published
  • 288 pages
  • ★ 3.8 (4 ratings)
  • 5 editions

Star Wars - Death Troopers is a 2009 horror and adventure fiction novel by Joe Schreiber. Key subjects include space ships and interplanetary voyages.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, and 53 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 5 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list in 2009.

It runs to roughly 288 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Star Wars - Death Troopers

When the Imperial prison barge Purge—temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels and thieves—breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope seems to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back—bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours, nearly all aboard the Purge will die in ways too hideous to imagine. And death is only the beginning. The Purge's half-dozen survivors—two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board—will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting on board the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn't really empty at all. For the dead are rising, soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
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Awards & lists

  • 📰New York Times bestseller list — Hardcover Fiction, 2009

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Space ships
  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Action & adventure science fiction
  • Space opera science fiction
  • Horror

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote Star Wars - Death Troopers?

Star Wars - Death Troopers was written by Joe Schreiber and first published in 2009.

What genre is Star Wars - Death Troopers?

It is usually shelved as Horror and Adventure.

How long is Star Wars - Death Troopers?

The median edition has 288 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Star Wars - Death Troopers?

Readers who like it often enjoy Gideon the Ninth, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and The Lightning Thief.

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