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Keith Laumer is admittedly an acquired taste, and not for everyone. Retief, in particular, requires an open mind. Laumer has a keen wit and vast field experience in the U.S. Diplomatic Corps, upon which experience he draws heavily. This is speculative fiction and satire at its best - you have to sit down with the mindset that this is keen, biting satire - set in a 27th century James Bond environment... think 007 with a nucleonic blaster instead of a Walther-PPK, but an even keener biting wit. Take it at face value and you're stuck with the sad experience of the poor, unimaginative one-star reviewer. Go in with an open mind, and you're in for a genuine treat. Enjoy!


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Retief War Jaime Retief Series #3 Keith Laumer 9780671559762 Books Reviews

Retief, the resourceful and indomitable diplomat who faces countless dangers in the service of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestienne, is on the planet Quopp, with its many forms of wheeled and rotored inhabitants. The Voion, one of the races, have been selected by the CDT to set up a planetary government to replace the cheerful chaos the inhabitants enjoy. Unfortunately, the Voions idea of peace is subjugating or exterminating all the others.

Retief has his hands full setting up a counter-revolution to oppose the Voion, leading the army, rescuing ten Terran females lost in the jungle and preventing the execution of the whole Terran embassy. His longtime nemeses, the five-eyed Groaci, put in an appearance, getting their sticky fingers in where they aren't wanted.

Light-hearted, silly, funny and fast-moving, filled with the evocatively-named embassy staff (Ambassador Longspoon, Commander Underknuckle), aliens with strange speech patterns and bizarre forms, Laumer throws jabs at diplomacy and meddling in other countries' affairs that probably come from his personal experience in the Diplomatic Service.
This was in my house for years, but I finally read it when a coworker of mine mentioned Keith Laumer's Retief series. I wished I read it sooner.

The story is about a James Bond-like diplomat named Jame Retief, and unlike his colleagues, he is strong, clever, and moral. He is sent to a world of mechanical-type but living beings of many different races, primarily the Voions, who were intended by Retief's employers to help govern the planet but instead intend to turn it into a tyranny ruled by their race. Also, another outside race known as the Groaci are involved in this matter, wanting the planet to themselves. Retief disguises himself as one of the natives and works to organize a rebellion against the treacherous Voions.

Yes, like in most Retief stories, the natives are quirky and speak in various types of humorous patois. But that is how it is in the real world; go to Jamaica and realize they don't speak American English. Also, you see that Terran diplomats aren't necessarily aware of how the worlds they travel to are. Lighthearted fun.
My review is that any Retief, at least through the first dozen books, is a treat. Laumer had the ability to poke fun, sometimes biting fun, at the world of the diplomat. Retief books are intended for enjoyment, the pleasure of a laugh and a sad agreement with the foibles of political life. I've been reading a one star review that makes me laugh nearly as much as the books themselves.

A reader who explains that aliens on wheels rather than legs is beyond reason and can't be taken seriously. Made me wonder. On this one single planet there are life forms that have hundreds of legs. Some have NO legs. Some that are frozen solid for 8-9 months of every year, some weigh TONS, some so small as to be invisible. Others live at the ocean floor, where the pressure is hundreds of time what surface dwellers face and they manage to live out their lives. Creatures who inhabit the ocean floor under the polar ice caps without ever seeing the sun. Small fish who live in the boiling waters of desert streams and ponds, sightless fish who's gills are outside their bodies. Furry animals who fly, who use radar/sonar to find and catch their prey. Insects and fish who generate their own light! But, of course, those are known to said reviewer and so don't appear unusual. Wheels however are impossible. Foolish people...... the tiny universe of this one planet shows that no life form is impossible.

Give Retief's War a try, it's good reading, and good laughs.
I got this by request for my son's birthday. He loved it and has decided that Laumer is his favorite author!
Dated sci-fi, but still enjoyable.
Keith Laumer is admittedly an acquired taste, and not for everyone. Retief, in particular, requires an open mind. Laumer has a keen wit and vast field experience in the U.S. Diplomatic Corps, upon which experience he draws heavily. This is speculative fiction and satire at its best - you have to sit down with the mindset that this is keen, biting satire - set in a 27th century James Bond environment... think 007 with a nucleonic blaster instead of a Walther-PPK, but an even keener biting wit. Take it at face value and you're stuck with the sad experience of the poor, unimaginative one-star reviewer. Go in with an open mind, and you're in for a genuine treat. Enjoy!