Welcome to the hottest pocket in Larry Nivan's KNown Space: the time of the assault on pacifist humanity by berserker felinoids from the plant Kzin. This time humanity's representative to the Warrior Race are Donald KIngsbury, Greg Bear, and Steve Stirling. As it traditional in this war for species survival, in all cases "monkey cleverness" (i.e. human cunning) is more than a match for feinoid ferocity. But as is also the tradition, victory never comes cheap to those out on the sharp edge of The Man-Kzin Wars.