The Kif Strike Back Author:C.J. Cherryh Pyantar Chanur, captain of the hani trading ship The Pride of Chanur, had broken the rules time and time again and come out ahead. She had defied friend and foe alike to protect the fugitive Tully, last survivor of the first human venture into Compact space. She had rescued her own math Khym, from death by clan challenge and taken him into spa... more »ce - a thing unheard of among hanikind, where females roved the starways while males remained planetbound. She had made both Tully and Khym memebers of the Pride crew and given Khym the right to bear arms. And she had made private alliances, against the wishes of her own kind.« less