Farside Cannon is not an overly inspiring title to me.
However, I really enjoyed this book.

Political intrigue, people screwing each other over for their own gains.
Different factions with common goals or opposite goals, miscommunications and misunderstandings.
A comedy of errors with different parties attempting to save the world and instead sabotaging each other's efforts until tragedy looks inevitable.

Couldn't put this book down towards the end. I'll have to look up some more Roger MacBride Allen in the future. Good real characters and very easy reading. ( )