The Ecologic Secession (Ecolitan Series #3) by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
Four hundred years after winning Secession from the Terran Empire, the star system Accord wants to sign a simple trade treaty on microchip export tariffs. But if the agreement is so minor, why is Professor Nathaniel Whaler--top economist at the Ecolitan Institute, and his world's top commando killer--chosen Accord's Envoy?
Because the Imperial capital is a maddening bureaucracy of sniveling diplomats, high profile figureheads, powers behind the throne, and spies--everywhere, spies... Because the Envoy has to face red tape, politics, prejudice--and a gauntlet of kidnappers, assassins, snipers and bombs...
Because some ministry-but which?-doesn't want the treaty. Because some in the Empire blame Accord for Earth's poisoning and the defection of fifty star systems after the war between Imperial nuclear might and Ecolition bio-ecological weaponry. A hidden cabal wants to fight the war again--even if, this time, the entire galaxy dies.
And only Nathaniel Whaler, the Ecologic Envoy, has the power to stop the catastrophe.
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The Ecologic Secession (Ecolitan Series #3) by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
Four hundred years after winning Secession from the Terran Empire, the star system Accord wants to sign a simple trade treaty on microchip export tariffs. But if the agreement is so minor, why is Professor Nathaniel Whaler--top economist at the Ecolitan Institute, and his world's top commando killer--chosen Accord's Envoy?
Because the Imperial capital is a maddening bureaucracy of sniveling diplomats, high profile figureheads, powers behind the throne, and spies--everywhere, spies... Because the Envoy has to face red tape, politics, prejudice--and a gauntlet of kidnappers, assassins, snipers and bombs...
Because some ministry-but which?-doesn't want the treaty. Because some in the Empire blame Accord for Earth's poisoning and the defection of fifty star systems after the war between Imperial nuclear might and Ecolition bio-ecological weaponry. A hidden cabal wants to fight the war again--even if, this time, the entire galaxy dies.
And only Nathaniel Whaler, the Ecologic Envoy, has the power to stop the catastrophe.