Concluding the 'Diplomacy' trilogy, this third volume continues the gyrations and misadventures of the Ic'nichi's ill-starred diplomatic herd. Our heros have returned from their second crisis on earth only to find that their experience in the Dreamsingers' War had had an unexpected effect on them all. They are becoming telepathic While their empathic powers grow day by day, they find themselves caught up in the political crossfire as the Chamber Of Ancients struggles to cope with the consequences of the late war and their ongoing suspicion of the mysterious and unstable 'humans'. As they struggle against their choking bureaucracy and their ever-growing powers, little do they know that suspicion is rapidly is rapidly brewing up into an interstellar crisis which threatens to explode into a devastating war. Their only hope: the unlikely intervention of the mysterious Dreamsingers, and their own earnest fumbling...