The Hutt Gambit 7

Realizing that he would never be allowed to approach Jabba carrying his BlasTech EE-3 rifle, Fett carefully laid it down on the bottom
step. He was still armed dangerously enough to have killed Jabba and completely destroyed the audience
chamber, and Jabba probably knew that, but the Hutt Lord also knew Boba Fett's reputation for honesty.
Jabba had paid him to come here and speak with him, and it would have been a breach of bounty hun-
ter protocol for Fett to accept such a meeting if he'd had an outstanding bounty on Jabba's grotesque
head.-Chpt.8 pgs.312-313