I'm fond of the Jamie Retief stories, though our hero isn't much of a diplomat, and his adventures are rather more of the James Bond school, than that of Lawrence Durrell's diplomatic stories. As escapism these are fine. ( )

While the Retief books do tend to blur into one another after a while, this had several good stories in it. I particularly liked the story that prompted the cover art, 'Protocol' a.k.a. 'The Yllian Way'. ( )