
Trans Galactic Insurance
Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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William Turbett
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By:
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Andrew Moriarty
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
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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!
Accounting in Space?! Yes!!!
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It's funny
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The story sounds dated, but I really liked it.
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This is a light comedy romp of the private fear and innocence versus betrayal, lies, murder, cynicism and wealth of corporate individuals. Sort of funny pathetic. Good basic concept and some nice futuristic ideas, like food coming in microwave colour codes trays, red, green and blue being the cheapest. A fair bit of technical detail but not overly intrusivd. But seriously lacking in character development which fitted with the flat, almost cartoon feel of the writing, and is further conveyed by the fine narration of William Turbett. Trans Galactic Insurance - the title alone makes this worth several stars - is a quick, easy fun read which is replete with head turning twists as it nears the conclusion but which would have benefited from better editing earlier where I am sure there were minor contradictions but which one as insufficiently motivated to go back and determine.
I enjoyed the story (which, for some inexplicable reason made me want to re-read Harry Harrison's very differently delicious Stainless Steel Rat), and am glad to have read it, but have no desire to continue the series.
"We need to talk about Danny."
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Excellent
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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.
Who knew insurance was such a cut-throat business?
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Quietly Amusing
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The bigger problem I had was with the narrator. The narration is delivered with all the precision of a badly dubbed Japanese Kaiju movie. Flubs are even left in and the lines are repeated.
Not the kind of quality I normally find on Audible.
Troublesome Narrator
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Is it worth a credit, probably....I think the one dimensional aspect to the characters will be annoying to people, but it's fun ride otherwise.
Different
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Space and accounting
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