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Grimes' luck seems to have run out. He lands on lost colony Botany Bay and everyone wants to stay, he lifts off and sends a message to the Captain who gave him the clue about Botany. Crew is not happy but they had all smuggled aboard some wacky baccy mutated tobacco and were smoking it..he searched the ship to confiscate it all. The crew of Discovery mutinies and kills the psionic officer's dog amplifier. They plan to space him but Vinegar Nell changes their minds and they drop him off in a boat with the psionic officer and the medical officer. Weeks go by and the Sundowner finds them. He gets Sundowner's Captain Davinas to take him back to Lindsfarne Base only to be warned of an upcoming court martial. He is sent back to Botany Bay with another Captain to capture the mutineers, which they do but those same mutineers had married and made friends on Botany Bay and with help they escape and retake the Discovery and leave the planet, wives and girlfriends and all. Grimes realizes his career in Survey Service is over and his only avenue of escape is to try the Rim Runner navy. This is the last book in the survey series.
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