This character-focused space opera tells the story of an engineering-educated farmer who’s abducted and ultimately becomes the world’s representative of an alien federation of planets. The story includes two other individuals, a woman with a legal background and a human-appearing alien, who inadvertently killed an alien official. There are humored moments triggered by the comments of an AI with a 60’s acid-head communication style and bickering between the two humans. A voyage to the alien planet’s power center to retrieve access codes needed to impersonate the dead alien’s reports is littered with one challenging incident after the other. After overcoming these, the trio returns to Earth and takes over the dead alien’s diplomatic role.

The joy I experienced reading this book was similar to that of reading books by Vaughn Heppner, and Evan Currie. I’m glad I found a new Sci-Fi author to follow.