About the book: 1996 / The distant and mysterious Jirrish civilization received a short respite in the war with human conquerors. However, one of the captives, a man named Feilan Kavanaugh, was able to escape, and this immediately jeopardized the relationship between the related Jirrish clans. A huge space fleet of humanoids is approaching their planet. The Jirrish civilization has enormous capabilities, they have conquered even death, but suddenly they are faced with a choice: they can be destroyed either by human technology or by internecine enmity…