Trader Vyx
(A Galaxy Unknown #4)
by Thomas DePrima

Trader Vyx, an undercover operative for Space Command, the military arm of the Galactic Alliance, has been sent into the Frontier Zone to procure several weapons from an Alyysian arms merchant, as part of an effort to trace the serial numbers and end the thefts.

So begins the story. However the author can’t get away from his hero, Jenetta Carver. So it’s back to her where most of the story stakes place. She is commanding the captured Raider Space Station and the main story involves her defending the base against the raid.

Generally it’s a good story. But there are times when you can feel the plot slowing down and the author padding out the story, then realizing he is doing it and getting on with the plot. This could have been fixed by a good editor and  got the story down to below 100k words.