A new installment in the New York Times best-selling,
award-winning Vorkosigan science fiction adventure
series.
Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series.
GOOD INTENTIONS, BAD INTEL
Captain Ivan Vorpatril sometimes thinks that if not for his
family, he might have no troubles at all. But he has the
dubious fortune of the hyperactive Miles Vorkosigan as a
cousin, which has too-often led to his getting dragged into
one of Miles’ schemes, with risk to life and limb—and
military career—that Ivan doesn’t consider entirely fair.
Although much practice has made Ivan more adept at fending
off his mother’s less-than-subtle reminders that he should
be getting married and continuing the Vorpatril lineage.
Fortunately, his current duty is on the planet Komarr as
staff officer to Admiral Desplains, far from both his cousin
and his mother back on their homeworld of Barrayar. It’s an
easy assignment and nobody is shooting at him. What could go
wrong?
Plenty, it turns out, when Byerly Vorrutyer, an undercover
agent for Imperial Security, shows up on his doorstep and
asks him to make the acquaintance of a young woman, recently
arrived on Komarr, who seems to be in danger. That Byerly is
characteristically vague about the nature of the danger, not
to mention the lady’s name, should have been Ivan’s first
clue, but Ivan is no more able to turn aside from aiding a
damsel in distress than he could resist trying to rescue a
kitten from a tree.
It is but a short step down the road of good intentions to
the tangle of Ivan’s life, in trouble with the Komarran
authorities, with his superiors, and with the lethal figures
hunting the mysterious but lovely Tej and her exotic blue
companion Rish—a tangle to test the lengths to which Ivan
will go as an inspired protector.
>But though his predicament is complicated, at least Ivan
doesn’t have to worry about hassle from family. Or so he
believes . . .
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