Download or read book When Diplomacy Fails written by Michael Z. Williamson and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High tech near-future mercenaries Ripple Creek Security must protect an obnoxious world government minister from the scores of enemies who want her dead¾and killed in the worst possible way. Alex Marlow and Ripple Creek Security's best personal security detail return to action. This time, they really don't like their principal, World Bureau Minister Joy Herman Highland¾a highly placed bureaucrat with aspirations to elected office. But Highland's would-be assassins are up against the best security in the business¾and Ripple Creek has no qualms about seeing their own explosions on galactic news. In fact, they kind of enjoy it. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).