{"_id":"65aee0ac954586d7d145948d","title":"—And Devious the Line of Duty","author":"Tom Godwin","code":"and-devious-the-line-of-duty","publish_year":1962,"words":13271,"image":"jungle.jpg","image_alt":"A jungle with tall winding trees. Graphite filter.","publish_source":"Analog: Fact and Fiction","genres":["sci-fi","adventure"],"description":"A young lieutenant is willing to die in the line of duty to save Earth and her people, but instead he is tasked with the much stranger mission of breaking up a marriage.","blurb":"“You are thinking, of course, of dying dramatically behind a pair of blazing blasters. But you will soon learn, my boy, that a soldier’s duty is to protect the worlds he represents by whatever actions will produce the best results, no matter how unheroic those actions may be.”","unique_cover":"Drawing of a man looking at another who is smugly sipping on a drink.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}