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Ambassador #6
The Enemy Within
Two men went on a surfing trip in a remote area. Only one came back, accused of murdering the other.
Sounds simple, right?
Not quite, because the alleged murder happened on another planet, the accused is a member of the secretive Pretoria Cartel of super-rich business tycoons--with illegal off-Earth ventures--and the only person who can remotely be called a witness is an alien, the elder Abri from the Pengali Thousand Islands tribe.
Diplomat Cory Wilson is asked to accompany Abri to the Nations of Earth court, but when he and his team arrive there, their contacts have been moved to different cases, their rooms are bugged and their movements restricted. No one is answering their questions, but it is when a lawyer is murdered and Cory's team captures a mysterious stalker that things get interesting.
Just as well they are prepared in the usual way: alert and highly armed.
Sounds simple, right?
Not quite, because the alleged murder happened on another planet, the accused is a member of the secretive Pretoria Cartel of super-rich business tycoons--with illegal off-Earth ventures--and the only person who can remotely be called a witness is an alien, the elder Abri from the Pengali Thousand Islands tribe.
Diplomat Cory Wilson is asked to accompany Abri to the Nations of Earth court, but when he and his team arrive there, their contacts have been moved to different cases, their rooms are bugged and their movements restricted. No one is answering their questions, but it is when a lawyer is murdered and Cory's team captures a mysterious stalker that things get interesting.
Just as well they are prepared in the usual way: alert and highly armed.
- GenresScience Fiction
290 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 14, 2017
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Patty Jansen
131 books285 followersAuthor of Science Fiction and fantasy and non-fiction.
Author of the Ambassador series, the Icefire Trilogy, For Queen And Country series and the Return of the Aghyrians series.
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May 9, 2017
In Ambassador 6, Cory Wilson is taking his entire association, including his support staff, to Earth, along with representatives of the Pengali for the trial of Robert Davidson. From the outset obstacles are put in his way. He must find another translator, he barely has the funds to go and obviously there are people who want to manipulate him for their own interests. Really, what is going on on his old planet, Earth. Lots, and little of it is good.
Like all books in this series, Ambassador 6 is character driven and focuses on the relationships between people of different alien races. Jansen does a superb job of inventing cultures and humanoids that are plausible and understandable. She then demonstrates how cultural difference and requirements can create chaos even in everyday situations. Despite having a large cast, I rarely lose track of who’s who. The political wrangling and despicable behaviour of those in power is what makes these books come alive. Despite having just finished 6, I can’t wait for 7. The only thing that spoils the books is typos which I tend to ignore.
Like all books in this series, Ambassador 6 is character driven and focuses on the relationships between people of different alien races. Jansen does a superb job of inventing cultures and humanoids that are plausible and understandable. She then demonstrates how cultural difference and requirements can create chaos even in everyday situations. Despite having a large cast, I rarely lose track of who’s who. The political wrangling and despicable behaviour of those in power is what makes these books come alive. Despite having just finished 6, I can’t wait for 7. The only thing that spoils the books is typos which I tend to ignore.
July 17, 2020
Just keeps getting better
This series just keeps getting better, I didn't think it was possible but Patty proves otherwise.
I'm so invested in the characters that I cried when, oops can't say as it would be a spoiler alert!
I absolutely love Cory, how he is so right in his role yet is still second guessing himself. He has a foot in two worlds but in reality he is much more comfortable on the planet he is ambassador to than he ever is on Earth. He is constantly learning new things & has the ability to see the overall picture very quickly, something I wish I could do.
If there are aliens out there, I hope we have enough Corys here to take on the challenge
This series just keeps getting better, I didn't think it was possible but Patty proves otherwise.
I'm so invested in the characters that I cried when, oops can't say as it would be a spoiler alert!
I absolutely love Cory, how he is so right in his role yet is still second guessing himself. He has a foot in two worlds but in reality he is much more comfortable on the planet he is ambassador to than he ever is on Earth. He is constantly learning new things & has the ability to see the overall picture very quickly, something I wish I could do.
If there are aliens out there, I hope we have enough Corys here to take on the challenge
September 9, 2018
The bad guy goes to court, Cory and the Pengali—The Thousand Island Tribe go too.
Cory and Thayu take most of their association with them. Cory had plans to go to New Zealand with family and household after the court session was over. But this ended with the way all were treated.
Read and enjoy.
Cory and Thayu take most of their association with them. Cory had plans to go to New Zealand with family and household after the court session was over. But this ended with the way all were treated.
Read and enjoy.
May 3, 2024
A bit more muddled
This book is a bit more muddled than the previous books. It gets hard to follow at times. There are some significant errors, such as: a character is off on a mission but then was noted to be in a car with current characters so couldn’t be in both places at once. Poor editing once more.
This book is a bit more muddled than the previous books. It gets hard to follow at times. There are some significant errors, such as: a character is off on a mission but then was noted to be in a car with current characters so couldn’t be in both places at once. Poor editing once more.
December 14, 2017
I love Cory and Thayu and so many others! I love the action and the mysteries in every plot. Very tight writing with few typos. I have thoroughly enjoyed this series!
May 5, 2024
Can't get enough of this series. I hope it gets made in a television show.
May 13, 2024
The plot thickens...
April 19, 2017
This book continues the legal story arc started in Book 5 of the Ambassador series involving the exploitation of a native tribe for their blue diamonds by a couple of crafty Earthers. Cory, the titular Ambassador, is playing a leading role in facilitating the testimony of the aliens who have been aggreived.
Jansen has woven quite the tangled political and diplomatic web with this series. Cory is Earth-born yet married and accepted into Coldi society (the pseudo-dominant force in the assembly of planets, gamra). While he initially was to serve as Earth's ambassador to the gamra, he has since left that post and works as a sort of liason for the head of the Coldi government with his own mostly-Coldi staff and a Coldi wife with whom he is trying to have a child through genetic manipulation. This is all a long way of saying that Cory doesn't really have any sort of real status on Earth, and so it being thrust into an almost unfamiliar territory even though he's technically returning home.
This particular story arc is Earth-centric and intersects only tangentially with the other story arcs that have been played out in the previous Ambassador books. However, there is a sense that Jansen is trying to bring in several threads from those books into this as it moves towards a conclusion of events on Earth. But really, instead of focusing on gamra or Coldi politics, this book is a crash course on what has been happening on Earth. Speaking for myself, I had assumed that there was a political hegemony on Earth (since there seemed to be an Earth President) and that things were, for the most part, fairly stable. Apparently not. We learn about the class stratification that exists; corporations buying up entire countries with failed governments, and exploitation of the masses and natural resources. All of this serves as a backdrop for the trial about the blue diamonds and the deaths uncovered in Book 5.
This has been quite the shift since the first 4 books of this series has had Cory moving further and further away from Earth and caring little about its politics which are now front and center. That said, this book was as good as the previous books. Cory's association/family of Coldi and others gives a nice sense of team that left me worried about them when members are missing and cheering when they score victories. I think that's the main strength of the Ambassador series; the relationship that the reader has built up with Cory and his group. There's a lot of varied personalities and it's satisfying to see how they all work together to support Cory.
It feels like Jansen could be reaching a series conclusion in the next book, and I'm looking forward to reading it, though I suppose that the Ambassador series could continue indefinitely.
Jansen has woven quite the tangled political and diplomatic web with this series. Cory is Earth-born yet married and accepted into Coldi society (the pseudo-dominant force in the assembly of planets, gamra). While he initially was to serve as Earth's ambassador to the gamra, he has since left that post and works as a sort of liason for the head of the Coldi government with his own mostly-Coldi staff and a Coldi wife with whom he is trying to have a child through genetic manipulation. This is all a long way of saying that Cory doesn't really have any sort of real status on Earth, and so it being thrust into an almost unfamiliar territory even though he's technically returning home.
This particular story arc is Earth-centric and intersects only tangentially with the other story arcs that have been played out in the previous Ambassador books. However, there is a sense that Jansen is trying to bring in several threads from those books into this as it moves towards a conclusion of events on Earth. But really, instead of focusing on gamra or Coldi politics, this book is a crash course on what has been happening on Earth. Speaking for myself, I had assumed that there was a political hegemony on Earth (since there seemed to be an Earth President) and that things were, for the most part, fairly stable. Apparently not. We learn about the class stratification that exists; corporations buying up entire countries with failed governments, and exploitation of the masses and natural resources. All of this serves as a backdrop for the trial about the blue diamonds and the deaths uncovered in Book 5.
This has been quite the shift since the first 4 books of this series has had Cory moving further and further away from Earth and caring little about its politics which are now front and center. That said, this book was as good as the previous books. Cory's association/family of Coldi and others gives a nice sense of team that left me worried about them when members are missing and cheering when they score victories. I think that's the main strength of the Ambassador series; the relationship that the reader has built up with Cory and his group. There's a lot of varied personalities and it's satisfying to see how they all work together to support Cory.
It feels like Jansen could be reaching a series conclusion in the next book, and I'm looking forward to reading it, though I suppose that the Ambassador series could continue indefinitely.
April 11, 2017
So much enjoyed this latest installment in the Ambassador series! So much happens to these characters I've grown to love and there's so much more to come. And really I enjoyed getting to learn more about the Pengali's customs and people.
I was wondering when the whole "will Earth finally join gamra" situation would be addressed and learning that the things that have happened in this book are building up to that is pretty exciting too.
This definitely isn't a stand alone book, but that doesn't bother me, I love that we've slowly gotten to know Cory and through him all the people in his association - he cares about them and I care about them! Each book tells a really good continuation of the story - I've enjoyed each one and look forward to the next book with anticipation!
I was wondering when the whole "will Earth finally join gamra" situation would be addressed and learning that the things that have happened in this book are building up to that is pretty exciting too.
This definitely isn't a stand alone book, but that doesn't bother me, I love that we've slowly gotten to know Cory and through him all the people in his association - he cares about them and I care about them! Each book tells a really good continuation of the story - I've enjoyed each one and look forward to the next book with anticipation!
April 19, 2017
Loved it, as always. The characters are so well drawn that I really care about what happens to them. The aliens are drawn so well culturally that they don't need to look different (though they do), they just act in an unfamiliar manner. Their culture, perfectly logical to them, causes all sorts of uproar, especially on Earth with some very prejudiced people. Lots of action, lots of twists and turns, lots to think about.
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