Book - BookDetective

Name: Pretender

Author: C. J. Cherryh
Year: 2006
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
Science fiction, Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Fiction

Purchase/reserch links:

ISBNs:
9780756404086
0756404088

Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission in space, the crew of the starship Phoenix return home to find disaster: civil war has broken out, the powerful Western Association has been overthrown, and Tabini-aiji, its forceful leader, is missing. In a desperate move, paidhi Bren Cameron and Tabini's grandmother Ilisidi, the aiji-dowager, along with with Cajeiri, Tabini's eight-year-old heir, make planetfall and succeed in reaching the mainland. The brilliant and forceful Ilisidi seeks refuge at the estate of an old ally, and Tabini-aiji arrives at the door.

As word of Tabini's whereabouts circulates, clans allied with Tabini descend upon the estate, providing a huge civilian presence that everyone involved hopes will deter impending attacks by the usurpers.

But as more and more supporting clans arrive, Bren finds himself increasingly isolated, and it becomes clear that both his extremely important report of alien contact in space, and even his life, rest on the shoulders of only two allies: Ilisidi and Cajeiri.

Can one elderly ateva and and eight-year-old boy - himself a prime target for assassination - protect Bren, a lone human involved in a civil war that most atevi believe he caused?

This book is part of the "Foreigner" series. Here are some other books from this series: