Chanur's Legacy cs-5

National best-selling author C.J. Cherryh continues her highly acclaimed series with a new generation of alien encounters. A game of interstellar politics in which Hilfy Chanur and her vessel Legacy are commissioned to transport a small, mysterious religious object. The price is extremely generous, perhaps too generous.
Praise for the Chanur series:
A tour de force…quintessential SF. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
One of the best science fiction tales ever. (Minneapolis Star and Tribune)