Skip to main content

Retief #9 - Retief at Large

By: ACE Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (ACE Books)

Last Stocked on 8/31/2017

Product Info

Title
Retief #9 - Retief at Large
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Keith Laumer
Publish Year
1978
Pages
440
Dimensions
4.5x7x1"
NKG Part #
2147571722
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

Cosmic diplomacy and Machiavellian intrigue.

The official accounts of Terra's efforts in the field of interstellar diplomacy during the 29th century are available for the dialing to anyone willing to pore through the records of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne.

For those of sufficient discernment, however, it will be evident that the Corps records, incredibly voluminous though they be, fail to tell the whole truth - indeed to some degree must obscure it. Surely if it had been guarded solely by the efforts of such persons as Ambassadors Magnan, Thunderstroke and Grossblunder, Terra's Sphere of Influence would have crumpled instantly before the diplomatic assaults of the Groaci. That it did not demonstrates that other factors were at work.

One such factor was a career diplomat named James Retief. Contained here are several accounts of his achievements, illustrating how a few able men were able to save the galaxy for Man.