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Pretender

64.3% complete
2006
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11 chapters
Book Cover
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3132
Copyright © 2006 by C.J. Cherryh
For Sharon and Steve,
who have walked us off cliffs
and helped us move books.
The room had suffered, not from the attackers, but from the defenders of the house, who had taken no pains at all about recovering ejected shells - the detritus of combat was scattered about the floor, a few items lying on the rumpled coverlet of the bed, on the table.
May contain spoilers
Just Bren-ji, whose staff no one could equal.
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Added: 10-Jun-2022
Last Updated: 27-Dec-2022

Publications

 01-Feb-2007
DAW Books
Mass Market Paperback
In my libraryOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Feb-2007
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$7.99
Pages*:
404
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
12964
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-756-40408-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-756-40408-6
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Giancola Donato  - Cover Artist
Stanley S Drate - Book Design
THE HUMAN TARGET


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 aiji, its forceful leader, is missing and may be dead.

In a desperate move, Bren Cameron - brilliant human paidi to Tabini-aiji - and Tabini's grandmother Ilisidi, the aiji-dowager, along with Cajeiri, Tabini's eight-year-old heir, make planeffall and succeed in reaching the mainland.

Ancient, but still brilliant and forceful, Ilisidi seeks refuge at the estate of an old ally.  As llisidi's and Bren's bodyguards struggle to upate the manor's antiquated defense systems, Tabini-aiji arrives at the door.

As word of Tabini's whereabouts circulates, clans allied with Tabini descend upon the esrate, providing a huge civilian presence that everyone involved hopes will deter impending attack 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 an 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?
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Notes and Comments:
First Paperback Printing, February 2007
First printing based on the number line

Canada: $10.99

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Author(s)

C J Cherryh  
Birth: 01 Sep 1942 St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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  • I try to maintain page numbers for audiobooks even though obviously there aren't any. I do this to keep track of pages read and I try to use the Kindle version page numbers for this.
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