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The far side of evil / Sylvia Engdahl

Assigned to a planet on the verge of nuclear war, an alien agent faces a moral dilemma when a colleague's unauthorised intervention threatens the civilisation's natural evolution. This updated 2003 edition is intended for secondary school readers.
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