I was somewhat surprised by this one. I'd read it simply as a bridge between my chronological listening to the Star Wars audiobooks. While neither the blurb nor the first few chapters suggest it's anything but fan fodder (character names, species and equipment are undescribed and impenetrable to casual readers) the main push of the book is quite interesting, concentrating on the ethics of cloning (the Republic raises a clone army to combat the Separatist's droids - in case you didn't see the films). The story follows a clone commando team, "led" by an inexperienced learner jedi, on a mission to destroy a laboratory researching a virus targetting the clones. Along the way the clones themselves, the jedi, their trainers and even the enemy leader (who is of the race of the clone source material, the famous Jango Fett) muse on clone nature and what it means to breed men to die.