#728 Operation Haystack- Frank Herbert
This is another Frank Herbert story about an intergalactic Investigation and Adjustment team. We see some familiar characters like Umbo Stetson, and Lewis Orne. Instead of Orne being on some planetary mission, the story begins with him being transported back to the League Capitol planet or Marak in a life sustaining medical pod. His condition is critical, and it doesn’t look like he is going to make it.
Being mourned for his sacrifice and service, Orne impossibly held onto life. Little by little, he was patched up using “spare parts” and fourteen months later walked out under his own power. He was immediately given a new assignment spying on the High Commander’s family under suspicion for conspiracy of treason. There was a battle being waged between powers, planets, and genders, and with enough Herbert twists and turns to make any Sci-Fi reader satisfied.
Notable Passage: “No political compromise is ever totally right…You keep patching up things that always have flaws in them. That’s how government is.”
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