The Agent Gambit - Book Review
The Agent Gambit is another book in the Liaden Universe (I have previously read and reviewed The Dragon Variation).
It focus on Val Con, from clan Korval, which is an Agent of Change - the term for a spy used by the Liaden ultra-secret department of the interior. They have very special training, including a mind tool called The Loop, and are very dangerous.
Val Con meets with a mercenary in trouble (from which goes to the somewhat excessive romantic theme in all these Liaden novels, it seems), and proceeds to get in trouble himself.
Interesting introdution to the Clutch (another race of aliens), as well as getting lost in a backwards planet - usually good fodder for SF.
Maybe a little too much time spent in the mind problems of Val Con caused by The Loop, but overall pretty good. I'm quite interested in seeing what will happen next to Clan Korval following the events in this book.
Available on Baen, DRM-free
It focus on Val Con, from clan Korval, which is an Agent of Change - the term for a spy used by the Liaden ultra-secret department of the interior. They have very special training, including a mind tool called The Loop, and are very dangerous.
Val Con meets with a mercenary in trouble (from which goes to the somewhat excessive romantic theme in all these Liaden novels, it seems), and proceeds to get in trouble himself.
Interesting introdution to the Clutch (another race of aliens), as well as getting lost in a backwards planet - usually good fodder for SF.
Maybe a little too much time spent in the mind problems of Val Con caused by The Loop, but overall pretty good. I'm quite interested in seeing what will happen next to Clan Korval following the events in this book.
Available on Baen, DRM-free
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