
The Valley is the heart of the book: Dark Jedi Jerec wants to harness its concentration of the Force for his dreams of interstellar domination and the Jedi Rebels want to protect it or destroy it before it falls into the Empire's hands. Finally, there is the Valley of the Jedi.

And then there are the Jedi Masters-Rahn and Luke Skywalker-who stand literally and figuratively as spiritual guides to Kyle. In addition, the novel is populated with a number of Dark Jedi, notably Yun, who sometimes question their Dark path. Kyle has done the impossible and trained himself in the way of the Force, but readers learn that his father had also glimpsed the Jedi way and had turned back.

But which Jedi Knight? While the ex-storm trooper turned Rebel spy Kyle Katarn is the ostensible hero of the three books, his father is also a Jedi Knight of sorts. As the title suggests in this final volume of William Dietz's illustrated trilogy of Star Wars: Dark Forces novels, this is a tale of a Jedi Knight.
