Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain

A science fiction novella penned in the early 1960s. This book centers around the themes of diplomacy, conflict resolution, and the absurdities of bureaucratic procedures as the protagonist navigates interspecies tensions and misunderstandings on a distant planet. The story follows Vice-Consul Retief, who is dispatched to the troubled world of Adobe to mediate a crisis between human settlers and the indigenous alien species