Retief of the CDT (Jaime Retief Series #6) [Paperback]

Keith Laumer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 172 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (June 2, 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671434063
• ISBN-13: 978-0671434069
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,391,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Foreign Service, eh....?, December 30, 2011

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Darrell Zed "Zabinini" (Thunder Bay, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Retief of the CDT (Jaime Retief Series #6) (Paperback)

A quick search of the web didn't reveal much about the authors' time as a diplomat, but the elements of his experience that peek through this and other Retief stories are what make them most enjoyable for me. Although I first read and enjoyed this book in Junior High School, it wasn't until my later service in Cyprus (UNFICYP) and Israel/Syria (UNDOF) that I came to appreciate the similarities between the United Nations and the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne. Farcical bureaucracy, inefficiency, a focus on process rather than "doing the right thing"...it's as if Keith Laumer was around today and viewing the UN's pronouncements on North Korean attacks on the south, their inaction in Syria, and their installation of known despot nations on Human Rights panels!

5.0 out of 5 stars Retief again!, April 23, 2010

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Morrow "RMS" (Tasmania, Australia) - See all my reviews

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Once again, Jaime Retief delights by deflating the pomposity of our world's pretentious managers, diplomats and politicians in the guise of the Terran Corps Diplomatique in a series of pithy short stories. A must read, as fresh now as it was in the 1960s and 1970s. I'm still searching for the story about Refief and Mangan on a world beset by volcanic activity (mostly mud volcanoes), with a fragile ecosystem, where the mud rats delicately balance the crab grass, which holds the mud world together. Another pompous head diplomat arrives with rat poison and then chaos results. Anyone out there know the title of this short story. Great for reading to high school ecology students as an introduction!

4.0 out of 5 stars Long time fan, November 17, 2009

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James "The Servant" (Lancaster, PA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Retief of the CDT (Jaime Retief Series #6) (Paperback)

I read this book a number of years ago (about 10 times!!!) and I lent it to a friend. I believe he lost it so I bought a new copy and I still love it. It's just a fun series of short stories, very enjoyable.