“One of the best long-running SF series in existence.Cherryh remains one of the most talented writers in the field." - Publishers Weekly " A seriously probing, thoughtful, intelligent piece of work, with more insight in half a dozen pages than most authors manage in half a thousand." - Kirkus Reviews "This is the kind of anthropological SF of which is an acknowledged master." - Booklist Cherryh's splendid Foreigner series remains at the top of my must-keep-up reading list after two decades." - Locus Something is coming, however, quietly, stealthily, just the first ominous twinkle of a new star in the heavens….
Combined with Tabini-aiji’s recent appointment of his young son Cajeiri as his official heir, Bren’s workload is challenging, but at least things on the atevi world seem to be on the right track. His current ambition is to keep himself and his bodyguard out of harm’s way, and to shepherd the aiji-dowager’s daring new trade agreement through the appropriate legislative committees. Now, at last, things are calming down the Assassins’ Guild is functioning again, working out its internal difficulties, and Bren is settling back into his routine: not as Lord of the Heavens not-to his regret-as Lord of Najida peninsula, where his leisure estate is located but as paidhi-aiji, an official in the atevi court. It’s been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron’s return from space-a year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government overthrown and their world in chaos. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin's bullet.The sixteenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences… Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit. It was a war that humans had no chance of winning on this planet so many light-years from home. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship.
It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi.
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