An omnibus edition.
- The Ecologic Envoy (1986)
- The Ecolitan Enigma (1997)
This new omnibus from L. E. Modesitt, Jr., includes the third and
fourth of his four-volume Ecolitan series, The Ecologic Envoy and The
Ecolitan Enigma, both starring Nathaniel Whaler.
Four hundred years
after winning secession from the Terran Empire (as chronicled in the
earlier omnibus, Empire & Ecolitan), the star system Accord wants
to sign a simple trade treaty with the Empire on microchip export
tariffs. But if the agreement is so minor, why is Professor Nathaniel
Whaler, chief economist at the Ecolitan Institute and his world's top
commando killer, chosen as Accord's Envoy? Because the Imperial capital
is a maddening bureaucracy of sniveling diplomats, high-profile
figureheads, powers behind the throne, and spies – everywhere, spies.
So the Envoy has to face red tape, politics, prejudice, as well as and
a gauntlet of kidnappers, assassins, snipers, and bombs. And some
ministry – but which? – doesn't want the treaty.
In fact, some in
the Empire still blame Accord for Earth's poisoning and for the
defection of fifty star systems after the war between Imperial nuclear
might and Ecolitan bio-ecological weaponry. A hidden cabal wants to
fight that war again – even if, this time, the entire galaxy dies.
And only Nathaniel Whaler, the Ecologic Envoy, has the power to stop the catastrophe.
This omnibus concludes one of L. E. Modesitt's most powerful science fiction series.
