Great title, and the plot thickens.... ( )

This is the third episode in Scalzi's Human Division, and Wilson, Schmidt, and Ambassador Abumwe are back. Abumwe and Schmidt are sent to pinch hit for a suddenly ill ambassador in negotiations with the Bula, seeking agreements on trade and tourism. Wilson, meanwhile, is temporarily assigned to a ship being sent to remove a wildcat colony from a Bula world--and it's in this context we discover the significance of events in Episode #2.

Having a wildcat colony on a Bula world is bad; having a Colonial Defense Forces ship in orbit around that world to deal with the problem is, if anything, worse. Abumwe and her team were picked because of their track record of handling difficult situations successfully, but this time she's given a direct order to do what she knows is a terrible mistake: lie to the Bula.

Recommended.

I bought the audiobook from Audible.com. ( )

Loving it, eager to move on to the next section. Heads, heh.

I bought a copy. ( )

Nice collection of stories set in the OLD MANƒ??S WAR universe. It continues the plot, so you donƒ??t want to miss it. I listened to the audio version which was very good. You can each episode separately or all together.
We've got a review of the full series here:
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We get back to Schmidt & Wilson in this installment. Schmidt is with Ambassador Ambumwe & Wilson is on a trek to New Seattle on Wantji. The Ambassador's negotiations with the Bula's Sub-Ambassador Ting is going strangely well & before too long we find out how what's going on at the New Seattle colony ties in. Needless to say, the treachery is running deep, the CDF has a lot to explain & there's that issue of the missing head (I think it's clear where it turns up at the end). Looking forward to the next! ( )