Conquerors’ Heritage (The Conquerors Saga, Book T

"Conquerors' Heritage"
In "Conquerors' Pride," Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award-winning author of the "New York Times" bestselling Star Wars+ trilogy, unfurled an epictale of drama and courage as the interstallar Commonwealth faced savageinvasion by alien starships of unknown origin. Now he probes deeply into theworld of the invaders themselves in one of the most powerful evocations of analien society ever created.
The Zhirrzh have won a temporary respite in their war with the barbarians. Butthe Human captive Pheylan Cavanaugh has escaped, and for that Thrr-gilag, theyoung Searcher, finds himself disgraced, his bond-engagement to a female of arival clan imperilled. Soon he becomes a target of hidden and powerful forcesseeking to remake Zhirrzh society in their own merciless image. His only hopeis to prove that the overclan authorities are wrong: that it was not theHumans who started the war.
But time is short. The forces of the Zhirrzh are overextended and face swiftretaliation. The Zhirrzh have learned to conquer death itself -- but even thatawesome power will be no match for the devastating might of the Human Conquerorarmadas. Thrr-gilag soon comes to realize that his people face a two-foldthreat: destruction by Human technology. . . or destruction fromwithin.