The negative men are, in my see, the most exciting characters in Star Wars (the Jedi, and so forth. bore me) - specifically the Sith Lords, and the old era types at that. I was searching at a Star Wars novel, Path of Destruction: A Novel of the Old Republic (Star Wars: Darth Bane), in Borders right now and it appeared a reasonably good go through (as opposed to several of the SW novels).