A review by carolynf
Corsair by James L. Cambias

4.0

The cover is boring and the description sounds like a space opera, but this book was really more of a heist story. It is set in the 2030s, when we have plants set up on the moon to create helium+ to fuel our fusion plants down on Earth. Something like that. So giant helium blimps are piloted remotely, while hackers manage to jack 1 in 16 of them to secret locations so that the helium can be pillaged and sold illegally. One such hacker is David Schwartz, who takes the role of space pirate very seriously. He is hunted by Elizabeth Santiago, who jeopardizes her military career in order to bring him to justice. They also used to date.

Too serious to be considered a beach read, this is the lightest of all techno-thrillers. The tone is more similar to Big Trouble by Dave Barry, or Romancing the Stone or something like that.