The Risk Profession

Ged Stanton has barely settled back in Tangiers when his boss hands him a claim from a dead man: a cash-return form that arrived two weeks after his death. The dead man had just struck it rich in the asteroid belt.

In Westlake’s wry future, asteroid prospectors are too dangerous to insure, so Tangiers Mutual sells them retirement plans instead. Ged, a plain-living claims investigator with a weakness for one-gee gravity, is sent to learn why Jafe McCann’s partner, Ab Karpin, wants the dead prospector’s money—and whether McCann’s death was really an accident. The body is lost in space, the law is scarce, and the only witness has a story to tell. How much of it can Ged trust?

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