AARON ALLSTON was an editor of The Space Gamer magazine, which won the H. G. Wells Award for Best Role-Playing Magazine in 1982. Allston later became a freelance game designer, working for Hero Games and Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR. He is one of the most popular Star Wars authors.
If you've been following and enjoying the series so far, then you definitely have to read Conviction, as it is both enjoyable and moves the story along. Civilian Reader