Jamie McFarlane

Rookie Privateer is the first novel in Privateer Tales series by Jamie McFarlane. When you are old enough to obtain dual citizenship (Earth-Mars) everything should be working out pretty well right? Not for a young lad, Hoffen. He is stranded on a mining asteroid known as Colony 40, busy assisting his father works out a claim that will never be of help to anyone. His good friend, Nick James life is running smoothly and destined for great things- he is set for life in James Rental business, and Hoffen has just found out that the girl he has known forever thinks that he is a great man now that she is departing for the Mars Naval Academy.