Trans Galactic Insurance

Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant, Book 1

By: Andrew Moriarty

Narrated by: William Turbett

The Galactic Empire disappeared a lifetime ago. Jake Stewart doesn't care, he needs to earn a living.

He fled his station in the outer Belt, enrolled in the merchant academy, and snagged a scholarship. The future looks bright. But a crooked boss, some paperwork shenanigans, and a freeloading best friend put him in a bind.

When he's accused of a murder he didn't commit he goes on the run from the Planetary Militia. There's only his wits and a suspiciously helpful pretty girl between him and jail. Can he trust her to prove his innocence? Or does she have another agenda?

Tired of books where everything that moves gets shot? How about a book where people use their brains? If you like strategy over tactics, and thought before action, The Adventures of a Jump Space accountant series is for you

©2017 Andrew Moriarty (P)2022 Andrew Moriarty

Accounting in Space?! Yes!!!

Great characters and story line
Found myself locked in wanted to hear what happened to Jake. Despite the future setting the author does a great job making the characters personable and intriguing!

Fun read. Onward to book 2!

It's funny

It was funny. I recommended it to family. I don't know, I don't write reviews.

The story sounds dated, but I really liked it.

Who uses whizbang in their dialect? My dad's dad? I felt for awhile that the story was something from the 1950's, but too much was more modern. But it's less of a story about technology, and more a tale of learning to stand on your two feet, and not be anyone's sucker/noob. You'll enjoy it!

Who knew insurance was such a cut-throat business?

As a fan of sci-fi, I gotta say I really like this book. Although it's primarily a mystery book, the sci-fi elements it has play out as realistic, enough to help immerse the reader into the story.

The story is very much a murder mystery where the scapegoat has to prove his innocence, but instead of being some action hero macho man stereotype, he's just a college student who, while being a little naive, is trying to wrap his head around what happened. Instead of finding out about the murder and instantly switching into super sleuth mode, he freaks out and tries to come up with ideas to help him stay afloat which, as he acknowledges in the book, are short term at best.

The narrator does a good job with the different voices, switching between naive everyman, smug jock, seedy ship captain, and everything inbetween.

This book takes a realistic look at a situation like this and turns it into an engaging and immersive story... but set in space, of course.

Quietly Amusing

The first in a series and able to be read as a stand alone book. The story was quite good, the main character engaging, stumbling from disaster to disaster with interest in, how was he going to get out of this? This was a great novel and quite enjoyable.