Lone Star Planet

Stephen Silk is assigned to be the Solar League's new ambassador to the people of CapellaIV, New Texas. The spot is available since the previous ambassador was assassinated. Silk meets his secretary/bodyguard, a native New Texan named Hoddy Ringo. The contents of a trunk aboard the ship shock him: contrary to the practices of the Consular Service, he will have to dress in native costume and carry a pair of automatic pistols in ejection holsters. He finds proof that implies that he's being set up for assassination, with the approval of the Consular Service... Lone Star Planet is a science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper. It presents a world on which the assassination of politicians is accepted practice.