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Another excellent entry into Bujold's Vorkosigan saga. (And now I get to check one more off my list of Hugo winners - now at 74% done!).
This one's quite heavy on the space opera, which isn't at all a bad thing.
Miles has left his alternate identity as Admiral Naismith behind, in order to study at the military academy at home on Barrayar. Upon graduation, he hopes to be assigned ship duty, and to get back into space. It's about as far from his dreams as he can imagine when he's assigned to the post of meteorology officer at a remote arctic base. However, when he complains that he's never even studied meteorology, he's told that this is a test of sorts - can he stop being insubordinate and troublesome and make the best of a difficult assignment? If so, he may earn his reward.
However, "Miles" and "staying out of trouble" are two things that don't go together too well.
Next thing you know, Miles is unraveling long-hidden secrets... which ends up with him on a secret mission involving reconnecting with his beloved Dendarii Mercenaries... who have gotten a bit mutinous, as far as their power structure, in his absence.