The Vor Game

Extract: Miles Vorkosigan, a recent military academy graduate, gets assigned to a lousy post as an ensign at an arctic weather station on his home planet of Barrayar. Always the upstart, Miles survives an intense confrontation with the base commander and is transferred to Imperial Security to investigate suspicious military build-up near a wormhole port. He gets caught in interplanetary intrigue as well as finding his accidently missing friend Gregor, the Barrayaran emperor.

Sounds like fun, no? No. It's JATSO: just another tedious space opera...