A rather uneven experience. As a long-time Traveller RPG player, I liked the setting and the story even more than they possibly deserved, and the writing was definitely not bad. However I got constantly annoyed by some dodgy political undertones the author seemed to be totally unaware of having, and those happened to rub me exactly the wrong way.

Life is cheap and murder by thugs with clean uniforms is basically shrugged off by a character whose post-teenage anguish we are then supposed to emphasise with. Might makes right and this is not questioned. Powerful private organisations are presented as competent, capable and heroic, governments are foolish, petty and inefficient. If everybody would just understand the of guns and capitalism, the universe would be a better place, etc. The story seems to lack several kinds of self-awareness.

Still, Trading in Danger must be doing something right, because despite my grinding my teeth at the middle parts of the book, I cannot honestly say that they were bad, just very much not for me. And I find myself wishing I had more of Captain Vatta's adventures to read right now, so hm.