9781416520719 | Baen Books, July 4, 2006, cover price $25.00 |
About this edition: In the wake of their defeat by the humans, the ambitious Kchula-Tzaatz seizes ultimate power of the Kzinti Patriarchy, sending Pouncer, First-Son-of-Meerz-Rritt, heir apparent to the galaxy's most powerful empire, on a desperate flight for survival following the collapse of his father's dynasty, and forcing Major Quacy Tskombe and Captain Ayla Cherenkova into a dangerous game in which the future of all humankind hangs in the balance.
9781416555070 | Reprint edition (Baen Books, September 25, 2007), cover price $7.99 |
About this edition: In the wake of their defeat by the humans, an ambitious Kchula-Tzaatz seizes control of the Kzinti Patriarchy, sending Pouncer, First-Son-of-Meerz-Rritt, heir apparent to the galaxy's most powerful empire, on a desperate flight for survival following the collapse of his father's dynasty, and forcing Major Quacy Tskombe and Captain Ayla Cherenkova into a dangerous game in which the future of all humankind hangs in the balance.