Retief Author:Keith Laumer, Eric Flint (Editor) Retief is Back... A Collection of Stories. — Retief is a very junior diplomat when these stories begin (as edited and arranged by Eric Flint) and they follow him through his career. He never rises very high, because he is more concerned with results than appearances. But rather than run to the CDT's exhaustive di... more »plomacy handbook for solutions,the clever envoy resorts to the one skill no bureaucratic manual can ever list:subterfuge. As a result, he gets the job done, but never finds approval of his superiors, who are only concerned with how it looks.
Contents:
Extraordinary Diplomats, essay by David Drake;
Diplomat-at-Arms
Protocol (aka The Yillian Way)
The Brass God (aka Retief, God-Speaker)
Sealed Orders (aka Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain)
Palace Revolution (aka Gambler's World)
Cultural Exchange
Saline Solution
Native Intelligence (aka The Governor of Glave)
Policy (aka The Madman from Earth)
Ultimatum (aka Mightiest Qorn)
The Prince and the Pirate
The Castle of Light
Retief's War
Wicker Wonderland (aka The City That Grew in the Sea)