The Dog King

The seventh episode of “The Human Division”, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling “Old Man's War.” Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of “The Human Division” will appear in eBook form every Tuesday.
CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson has one simple task: Watch an ambassador's dog while the diplomat is conducting sensitive negotiations with an alien race. But you know dogs, always getting into something. And when this dog gets into something that could launch an alien civil war, Wilson has to find a way to solve the conflict, fast, or be the one in the Colonial Union's doghouse.