Re: YASID from reddit

From:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1ermpbk/book_i_started_didnt_finish_and_have_forgotten/
 "Book I started, didn't finish, and have forgotten the name of."
 "I'm trying to find the name of a book that I started a few years back, but for reasons I can't remember didn't finish. Been googling intermittently for a few days and haven't been able to dredge it up.
 Thinks I remember for sure.
 It takes place in space, I think the POV is a captain of a ship or something similar.
 There is a big diplomatic summit taking place at some space station with many different races. The MC is either attending as, or transporting humanity's diplomat. I think it was the latter.
 FTL is not capable of making the jump in one go and so they do a series of hops to get the the summit.
 There's an asteroid field near by. I think the MC races someone else through it for some reason.
 Things that may be a plot point, or I may have come from some other story and are jumbled up in my memory.
 While there are some proper alien looking aliens, the majority of races look extremely humanlike for reasons I don't recall being explained by the time I stopped.
 Humans have some fancy missiles? Possibly used after the asteroid field sequence?
 Any help is appreciated."
 Sounds vaguely familiar.  Maybe "Grand Central Arena" by Ryk E. Spoor:
    https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Central-Arena-Ryk-Spoor/dp/1439133557/
"It Was Supposed to be a Routine Test of a New Ship—but They Landed in a Alien Arena Where the Stakes Were Life or Death."
 Lynn

             Well first off another Jack Campbell opus "Boundless" by John Hemry
writing as Jack Campbell. This is an extension of the Lost Fleet series where
Black Jack Geary, recovered from a survival capsule is returned to humanity
to lead the fight against the Syndicate World which represent un-bridled
capitalism or even corporate Fascism.
             Boundless is the name of the ship carrying humanities' first ambassador
to the Dancers, the alien species of Wolf-Spiders. The appearance of the Dancers
turns off a lot of members of the Alliance but they seem friendly and have higher tech
than humans in any of the groupings. The Alliance which is sending the "Black Jack Geary"
and the fleet to escort the Boundless.   They also have a group of scientists along to
extend the gate at Midway directly to the Alliance hypernet.
    In this volume they never get to the Dancers.  Too busy with the Fleet and its
former allies.
    They have side trips to defend a formerly Syndicate system from the Syndicate
force which has tried to keep it from being independent.   Satisfactory but wordy
Space Opera.