The Trader

By David. B. Reynolds-Moreton

Grant was a tough individual, he had to be in order to survive, but he had one weakness – the chance of great riches tempted him beyond his common sense. He was quick to learn, but sometimes not quite quick enough to stay out of trouble.
One temptation was to prove just a little bit too much.........

• Language: English
• Publisher: David. B. Reynolds-Moreton
• Release date: May 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311778796

David. B. Reynolds-Moreton

Retired Research & Development Engineer. Interests:- Physics, Electronics, Chemistry, Renewable Energy Systems. Also:- writing Sci-Fi and building an adult realtime 3D adventure computor game.

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The Trader

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SYNOPIS

Grant was a tough individual, he had to be in order to survive, but he had one weakness – the chance of great riches tempted him beyond his common sense. He was quick to learn, but sometimes not quite quick enough to stay out of trouble.

One temptation was to prove just a little bit too much………

Table of contents

Chapter1. A Tough Start

Chapter2. The Offer

Chapter3. The Temptation

Chapter4. The Mystery Planet

Chapter5. The Consequence of Broken Rules

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The Trader

Chapter 1.

A Tough Start

Grant Borgman was a freighter pilot, transporting goods between the four worlds which encircled a large blue white sun in the Regar system. To be a bit more exact, he only traveled between three of these worlds, as the fourth most outer one was rarely mentioned – even among his fellow pilots, and he sometimes wondered why.

His aging parents lived in a little bubble of their own, both of which spent most of their time compiling a history of the different races which inhabited their planetary system, and oblivious to most other thing – including himself. On the rare occasions when he had visited them, he sensed they were not really interested in him, or what he did – they were just polite, and served him a meal at the usual times, often not bothering to eat themselves.

Small wonder he felt a bit of a loner, as he had had to fend for himself for most of his life – at least since leaving school. To say he was a bit hard nosed, and a little uncaring for his fellow men would be putting it politely.

Grant had worked hard to get where he now was – a long apprenticeship in engineering gave him a good grounding in things mechanical, and then he took himself off to Flight Academy – as being a freighter pilot offered good money, and an interesting life among the other worlds.

Graduating took a little longer than he would have liked – but he made it, and was now a fully qualified freighter pilot – without a freighter. He could have just hired himself out to whoever needed his skills, but the real money lay in owning his own freighter, and then charging for the loads freighted – but that needed a lot of cash, much more than he had saved, so…..

Many years ago his parents had inherited a large estate, complete with several farms which they rented out, and this financed their lifestyle. On the pretext of leasing out one of the farms to a friend of his, he got them