The Citadel In Space by M J Dees

Caught up in yet another presidential assasination, the crew appear to be on the winning side this time, until they realise the victims of their new mission are to be themselves.

Can they escape their death sentence, and if they do, will they spend the rest of their lives, eating weird alien eggs on the remotest planet they can find?

The Citadel in Space is book eight in the light-hearted space opera series, Mastery of the Stars