“Star Wars meets Ocean's Eleven” is the quick pitch for Star Wars: Scoundrels, but that sells the book short by a few parsecs. With Han, Luke and Leia on their way out in the Expanded Universe, quite a few novels have chosen to go back in time and flesh out the pieces that we missed. Naturally, that three year gap between A New Hope and Empire is the perfect ground for these sorts of adventures.
So Han Solo isn't quite a Rebel yet—he's trying to clear that bounty on his head, and the perfect job falls right in his lap. But Han's a smuggler, not a con man; it would seem that a team of special experts are required to pull off one of the biggest heists in galactic history.
[“Trust me.”]