A collection of Hugo-nominated author Keith Laumer's Retief stories, collected from Worlds of If magazine and published in the 1960s. Laumer served in the U.S. Foreign Service and called upon these experiences in creating Jaime Retief, a diplomat serving the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, an intergalactic bureaucracy which will drive you nuts! Retief navigates these bumblers with an ease which will make you cheer for him and shake your head at his superiors.