The aiji-dowager knows who’s to blame for the attacks, and they’re going after him. It’s all he dreamed of.īut now safety is foremost: Cajeiri’s grandfather has been assassinated, hostile Assassins Guild invaded Great-uncle’s house, and now Bren Cameron, paidhi-aiji, who was sent to keep the aiji’s son safe, has more than the young guests on his mind. It's Bren's responsibility to entertain the guests, keep the security problem secret.and let a lonely eight-year-old prince reestablish his controversial relationship with the only other children he's ever met.inside the best security they can manage.Īt last-Cajeiri has his young guests from the starship, three young folk entranced by weather and trees and creatures with minds of their own. But having the targets separated and contained is an advantage. They themselves are very likely targets of whatever's going on, no question of it. Tabini's consort's own father has been barred from court, and may be involved in a new conspiracy against him.įor safety reasons, Tabini wants Bren and Ilisidi to take charge of Cajeiri, and protect him and his young guests. The boy has been promised he can have the young human children he knew from his voyage sent down from the space station for a two week stay.īut there's far a darker business going on in the background-a major split compromising the Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the whole continent. Intruder is the 13th Foreigner novel, and the 1st book in the fifth subtrilogy.It's coming up on Cajeiri's birthday. The long-running Foreigner series can also be enjoyed by more casual genre readers in sub-trilogy installments.

The recent dustup with the Shadow Guild may be only the beginning. Tabini-aiji is enraged to have lost his personal negotiator, and Bren is becoming embroiled in a development that could result in his assassination.īut there are even more dangerous things afoot, as a crisis brews inside the immensely dangerous Assassins’ Guild. Machigi, to Bren’s utter shock, has invoked an ancient law, changing Bren's role as negotiator for Tabini-aiji, Ilisidi, and other leaders of the Western Association to that of a specialized, entirely neutral negotiator between atevi adversaries.

But his sojourn was anything but restful, for Bren and his associates have had a small war of their own to contend with, ending with rebel leader, Machigi, joining the atevi congress representing the rebels as a member state. Bren Cameron, brilliant human diplomat allied with the dominant Western Association, has just returned to the capital from his country home. The thirteenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…Ĭivil war on the world of the atevi is over but diplomatic disputes and political infighting continue unabated.

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