The Profit Logbooks Series sets the stage for a whole new universe of adventure in the stars.
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Glowgems for Profit
Book One, 978-1938190452 Zack Mbele, captain of the independent freighter Profit, needs cash fast. There’s a loan payment due on the ship, not to mention a bogus Customs duty imposed by a crooked official. They’ll seize his ship if he doesn’t pay up and he has few prospects. When an old friend calls with a lead on a job, Zack isn’t too picky about obeying the letter of the law. All he has to do is smuggle someone out of Highpoint, a huge space station orbiting between the Earth and the Moon. It’s not all that easy, as a beautiful assassin and the Red Dragons gang complicate things. Suddenly Zack is involved in a maze of double-cross and murder as he races the Dragons and a shadowy para-military army for the greatest prize of all. |
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Thieves Profit
Book Two, 978-1938190445 Zack Mbele has a problem. His ship, the Profit, is in deep hock and the notorious mobster, Kwai Chang Wu, has bought the bank that holds the note. Either he does a job for Wu, or he’ll lose his ship. To make matters worse, his friend, Rabbit, is kidnapped, his crewmember’s family is brutally attacked, and his ex-wife, Cleo, is acting suspiciously. When Zack and his crew find themselves facing off with vicious crime bosses, criminal conspirators, deadly gangsters and a sinister goon with a bent for torture and killing, it isn’t a question of how high the body count will go, but who will make it out alive. |
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Profit and Loss: Shorts from the Profit Logbooks
Book Three, 978-1938190872 The Profit was living up to her name for the first time since Zack Mbele had stolen her from the Martian Navy in the chaos at the end of the Reunification War. He was earning a good living for my crewmates, and himself, and it was all honest money. It was what Cleo had always wanted – a home built on a stable business. Zack once thought it was what he wanted, too. So why did it chafe on him so? On Highpoint after a successful charter job, Zack decides to look up Akira Kensai, an old acquaintance. But Akira is dead and his brother, Tanaka Kensai, turns to Zack for help in solving the mystery of his death. When people start dying, Zack realizes the plot is bigger than just the death of one honest man, especially when Zack’s old enemy, Kwai Hong is involved. Meanwhile, Deuce rediscovers an old lover. Grace is now a torch singer in a high class bar on Highpoint’s Promenade. But Deuce knows her from old and still loves her, even if her past is full of hidden dangers. |
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Profit Motives
Book Two, 978-1938190902 The Profit is living up to her name for the first time since Zack Mbele stole her from the Martian Navy. After using the money from a big score to upgrade the ship’s living quarters, Zack and crew market her as a high-class charter yacht to the rich and famous. They’re welcome most everywhere they go (except Ceres and Kwai Hong One, but you can’t please everyone). Even their reputation as pirates and hard-case smugglers works to their advantage with clients who enjoy the illusion of danger. Life is good, if a bit boring. But that all changes when Deuce’s daughter is abducted, and the crew is forced back into operational mode to help get her back. Soon, they’re facing down black ops Revenants and Mongolian terrorists and hunting Zack’s nemesis, Colonel Metternich. Wait, Deuce has a daughter? |