Mathematics Of Eternity (Joe Ballen series)

You can ask Joe Ballen anything, except to give up.Joe Ballen dreams of returning to space, but after an accident left him half-crippled, those days are over. Luckily for Joe, Geneering gave him new limbs. Better than nothing, but not enough to allow him to go back to his old job as a space engineer. A natural loner, he now scrapes a living by illegally flying cabs in flooded-out Baltimore.But when one of his passengers suffers a grisly death, Joe is dragged into a dangerous conspiracy centered around a prototype Jumpship. No one believes the ship will work, not even the space-faring Atolls who have barricaded Earth from the rest of space. But someone is murdering everyone connected to it.As the bodies pile up, Joe becomes suspect number one, and his enemies will stop at nothing to hide the truth. With the help of a disturbed scientist, a senile survivalist, and his glamorous boss, can Joe untangle the puzzle and uncover the truth before he becomes another dead statistic?The future’s about to get a lot more action-packed!The Joe Ballen series is a near future, sci-fi noir thriller series, featuring a smart-mouthed space engineer, engaging characters, cynical humor, and plausible science.