"Keith Laumer - Retiefs Peace" - читать интересную книгу автора (Laumer Keith)

ISBN 1-4165-0900-3 (hc)
1. Retief (Fictitious character)--Fiction. I. Laumer, Keith, 1925- II. Title.

PS3561.E37747R48 2005
813'.54--dc22
2005016176

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Baen Books by Keith Laumer
edited by Eric Flint:

Retief!
Odyssey
Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side
A Plague of Demons & Other Stories

Created by Keith Laumer

The Bolo series:

The Compleat Boloby Keith Laumer
The Honor of the Regiment
The Unconquerable
The Triumphantby David Weber & Linda Evans
Last Stand
Old Guard
Cold Steel
Bolo Brigadeby William H. Keith, Jr.
Bolo Rising byWilliam H. Keith, Jr.
Bolo Strike byWilliam H. Keith, Jr.
The Road to Damascusby John Ringo & Linda Evans
Bolos!by David Weber
Old Soldiersby David Weber
 Retief's Peaceby William H. Keith, Jr.



Chapter One
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Second suns-set was an hour past, but the sky, ablaze with the myriad gleaming suns of the Shamballa
Cluster, shone with brilliance enough to read even the five-point italic type of a footnote to a standard
CDT Stern Note of Protest rendered in its most tightly spaced third-level obfuscese. Second Assistant
Deputy Undersecretary Jame Retief of theCorps Diplomatique Terrestrienne was at that moment less
interested in the radiance of B'rukley's night sky, however, than he was with the angry tenor of the