Recommended by Theodore Gilman, former executive director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
It’s a fun tale of interplanetary smugglers who operate for profit between Earth colonies. The characters are hilarious, including Captain Ichabod Drift and the huge Maori named Apirana (from Old Earth). They unknowingly deliver a shipment that includes a nuclear bomb to Amsterdam, and they must figure out who put them up to the task before the authorities catch them.