Tracker (Foreigner)

Tracker (Foreigner)

<b>The sixteenth novel in Cherryh’s <i>Foreigner</i> space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…</b><br><br>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 <i>atevi </i>allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government over­thrown and their world in chaos. <br> <br>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 <i>atevi </i>court. <br> <br>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. 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 <i>atevi </i>world seem to be on the right track. <br> <br>Something is coming, however, quietly, stealthily, just the first ominous twinkle of a new star in the heavens….