<p><strong>Can a food writer turned&nbsp;investigative journalist uncover financial fraud on a galactic scale?</strong><br /><br />It&#39;s been less than a century since ancient alien AI saved us from financial suicide by adding our planet to their interstellar tunnel network. Over half of Earth&#39;s population has emigrated to live and work on alien worlds and orbitals and humanity now aspires to that signature vessel of advanced species a jump-capable colony ship equipped to support millions of pioneers on the search for a new world. With trillions of creds at stake are humans doomed to repeat the mistakes that led to Earth&#39;s first galactic bail-out? Or might a more experienced investigative journalist look for fraud closer to home?<br /><br />Join the intrepid reporters of the Galactic Free Press a senior EarthCent Intelligence agent and an independent trader as they try to make a living and do their best for humanity with a little help from alien friends. Freelance On The Galactic Tunnel Network is a standalone novel that is the twentieth book in the EarthCent Ambassador / EarthCent Universe sequence and can be read without starting back to the beginning.</p>