“Cherchez la Femme”

"Cherchez la Femme" is a short story in the "Free Worlds" Anthology. It is the story of how Goneril Lear bumbles her first off-world assignment as an espionage agent. Determining that she is useless as an intelligence agent, the Government of Republic assigns her to Odyssey Project where they hope she can do no harm. 
Cherchez la femme is a phrase which literally means "look for the woman." According to Wikipedia, "The phrase embodies a cliché of detective pulp fiction: no matter what the problem, a woman is often the root cause."
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