Exiles to Glory

Jerry Pournelle; Exiles to Glory (Baen Books, part of Exiles and Glory omnibus, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4165-5563-3; cover by Clyde Caldwell).

Sample chapters can be found here.

Exiles to Glory is a young adult science fiction novel by Jerry Pournelle. Pournelle first wrote this in the mid-1970's, as a continuation to several of the stories that appeared in his collection High Justice. It was revised for this edition (Baen Books, 1993). In the spirit of Heinlein's books for young adults, we have a tale of a young man (Kevin Senecal) who gets a job in the Asteroid Belt working for a large corporation. On the way there he survives a couple of murder attempts, and while there he foils a plot combining murder and grand theft. It's not as preachy as some of Pournelle's other works in the field, and its amusing to see some of the areas where Pournelle underestimated technology.