Kutath - Faded Sun, Bk 3 Author:C. J. Cherryh From Amazon — When the Mri, a proud and noble race of warriors serving as mercenaries in exchange for a planet to call home, confront the human enemies of their employers, they encounter a method of warfare alien to their system of honor. No match for the Mri one to one, despite their similar physiology, the humans fight without honor, driving th... more »e Mri to extinction with superior numbers and firepower. Both the humans and the regul -- former employers of the Mri whose trade disputes with humans sparked the war in which the Mri were slaughtered -- see them as nothing more than professional warriors, the most dangerous killers in the galaxy. They take no prisoners, they have no fear of death, they keep the company of dangerous beasts. And yet there is a deep and powerful truth at the heart of Mri culture, hidden even to the warriors, who are the hand of contact with the outise world. True secrets of Mri culture have never been known to the outside, until one human being makes direct, personal contact. To understand their ways, he will have to become more Mri than human... --Phil MacEachron« less