Sten Duncan avait sauvé la vie de deux ennemis de l'humanité. Cela s'était passé lors de la prise de Kesrith, et maintenant Sten se sentait responsable du devenir de Niun et de Melein. Bien qu'ils fussent frère et sœur, les deux mri symbolisaient des castes distinctes : Niun, le dernier des samourais, Melein, la dernière prêtresse-reine. Le combat et le danger avaient créé des liens puissants, et la fraternité scellée dans le sang conduisait tout droit à d'étranges contradictions. Vint le temps où les routes du destin allaient mener les protagonistes du drame vers une légendaire planète perdue où les mri trouveraient peut-être une nouvelle chance.

SHON'JIR est le second volet d'une nouvelle trilogie de C.J Cherryh.

For the first time in one volume--the complete trilogy comprised of the novels "Kesrith, Shon'jir, " and "Kutath." A race of golden-skinned, golden eyed creatures is nearly annihilated in a war with "human" fighters. It's up to three individuals to save the race from extinction. Can they retrace the galaxy-wide path of this nomadic race through millennia to reclaim the ancient world that gave them life?

First of a trilogy in which two mighty species fight for a galaxy, where both diplomacy and warfare can fail, and alliances can be strange indeed.

Sten Duncan had saved the lives of the last warrior and the last priestess-queen of mankind's enemies, the mri. He had come to understand their ways and to value their code of honor. When they planned their escape and he was ordered to trap them, Sten fled into space with them instead. Far across the cosmos was their forgotten homeworld. He could help them find it--and maybe there find the secret that had eluded the military masters of Terra.

This is the final book in The Faded Sun trilogy. "Kutath was an ancient world and a dying one. In ages past its best sons and daughters had gone to the stars to serve as mercenaries in the wars of aliens. Now the survivors of its star-flung people, the mri, had come back - in the form of a single woman, the last priestess-queen Melein, and a single man, the last warrior, Niun. And one other - the human Sten Duncan who had deserted Earth's military to swear service to the foes of his own species. Here is... an in-depth study of the last stand of an alien culture confronted with the devastating vengeance of two star-conquering races.