Paul Preuss

"Would you like to tell the other guests how we met you, Bruni?"
"That pimp tried to force me to work for him, but I refused."
"You said, 'No thank you'?"
"I broke his arm."
"And when his big friends tried to help him?"
"I broke their knees."

"You cannot expect me to absorb the entire cost of the extortion by myself."
"How much you getting back from them? Ten percent? Fifteen? What is your commission for helping to rob your friends and relatives?"
"How do you find the hardness to say such things to me, Nikos?"
"Easily, old thief."

This was an interesting little sci fi book. A fun light space exploration story, if a bit shallow, but the plot device that gets them out exploring ends up not being just a plot device but actually comes back around and gives the book a turn in the third act.

F/SF