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Trans Galactic Insurance
- Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant, Book 1
- Narrated by: William Turbett
- Series: Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
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A space station murder. An accounting student accused. Can he track down the killer before his number is up?
Jake Stewart fears his hard work may never pay off. With his tuition funds disappearing down the black hole of his bank account, the academy student can't believe his luck when his friend finds him a cushy job. At least until his dodgy new boss turns up dead with Jake pinned as the prime suspect....
Expelled from school and hunted by the planetary militia, he desperately tries to escape on his own. But when his long-time crush offers to help clear his name, he hopes he can keep his awkwardness at bay long enough to crack the case. As long as the beautiful girl's own secrets don't get him in deeper trouble....
Can Jake track down the killer before his life is lost in space?
Trans Galactic Insurance is the first book in the mind-bending Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant sci-fi series. If you like scrappy heroes, engaging plots, and interstellar humor, then you’ll love Andrew Moriarty’s rollicking saga.
Buy Trans Galactic Insurance to launch into lightspeed action today!
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- Bill89
- 06-20-19
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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-12-21
Awkward narration
Enjoyed the story. Unique premise and engaging characters. The narrator has an unfortunate way of phrasing and emphasis which made it awkward listening.
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- Ijw
- 05-17-20
no go
Poor kid tries to work his way up and gets shafted. But it's pretty basic, uninspired writing. chapter 5 and I don't know if I'll finish.
Nope. Just not engaging. Hoping for humor; got adolescent drama.
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- Norma Miles
- 02-28-22
"We need to talk about Danny."
Jake, a hardworking young belter, is at the Merchant Academy on a scholarship. Poor and naive, he earns extra money by selling academic work to other students, an idea suggested by his wealthy friend, Bart, who also get him an insurance job, boring to most people but not Jake. But a false accusation leads to Jake's having to abandon his college course and go on the run.
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.
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- Chad W. Nixon
- 06-03-21
Fun Story
The narrator is pretty good, the book is well written with good character development and of course everything is in space (which is cool).
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- Adrian Nichols
- 05-13-21
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!
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- C E Wright
- 02-04-20
Poor boy makes good
Naivete is the premise of the hero of the story. Farm boy in the big city. A lot of who actually did what to who. The plots within plots and of course a surprise and clever ending.
William Turbett did an overall good job on the narration. a few times it was a little stilted. Kudos for the distinct male and female voices and the wide ranges in each. So no confusion in the characters.
So yes a good Sci-Fi yarn enough so that I will be buying the next book in the series.
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- lwmarti
- 01-25-20
A good attempt
Not perfect, but then what is?
Of the random science-fiction books that I've picked up to listen to while traveling, this was one of the better ones. Not art, but reasonably good entertainment.
The protagonist faces a series of problems that are more than a little like the challenges that you faced in the classic Infocom game Bureaucracy. Intrigue. Cheats. Thieves. Corruption. That sort of stuff. Not your typical science-fiction story. Definitely worth the time.
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- Greg
- 06-15-19
Different
This book is not the greatest piece of work ever...but I have been listening to a bunch of garbage lately, so I added a star...and it probably deserved just for the plot. I thought the plot was engaging, interesting, hard to predict..etc. The motivations of the various characters do seem to be a little business centric...so in that sense the book is disappointing...maybe its trying to push a Republican agenda, who knows. This point is really the major flaw in the book, but it can be overlooked.
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.
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- Norma Miles
- 02-28-22
"We need to talk about Danny."
Jake, a hardworking young belter, is at the Merchant Academy on a scholarship. Poor and naive, he earns extra money by selling academic work to other students, an idea suggested by his wealthy friend, Bart, who also get him an insurance job, boring to most people but not Jake. But a false accusation leads to Jake's having to abandon his college course and go on the run.
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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.
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- Azure Teal
- 01-04-22
What an interesting universe
I had this book on a wish list for months and I eventually got it over the holiday season. I found this universe that Andrew created to be absolutely fascinating. I have no idea how someone like Jake came to be and I was rooting for him the whole book. I think I will be joining Jake on his adventures in another book one day
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- Mark Chitty
- 07-19-21
Something a little different
Here's something a little different, and not your usual action packed sci-fi. Focusing on Jake as he progresses through his accounting course at an academy he received a scholarship to attend, he finds himself caught up in accusations of smuggling and murder - and with no idea what to do ends up on the run. Moriarty gives an enjoyable story here, though not without some small issues, mostly relating to the pacing and differences of style from start to end. What I thought would be a light and funny story turned into something a little darker, yet the writing didn't quite move in the same way. Still, it's an easy listen with a good narrator and I'm definitely interested in listening to the second in the series.