I vaguely remember reading that like 30 years ago or so if my memory is even remembering right at all. It was an amazing series to me then I believe. I also remember a book about a white gold welder named Thomas Covenent and a story about a villian and a hero named Jethro Hellier that saved the world while the villian got caught though and alien race and human looking for using heroine while they were on earth and having catamites I believe witch are young boys for sex and stealing a ton of gold and he was setup by his own people and then the blonde haired blue eyed hero ends up saving the day in the end. I think that one was L Ron Hubbard and like 19 volumes but I couldn't put the fucking story down back in like 84 85 when a friends dad had a huge sci fi collection his wife was a total bitch constant complaints about nothing at all, just a total nag constantly. The most hard to find one consisted of a man that was super rich but dead in an ai form his actual mind and they chased him to equador and he hid in the middle east and they called him The Guthry. And lasted Robin Broadhead talking to his psychiatry program named Albert Einstein AI, in not sure the spelling is right Heechie Rondevous which discovered ships of different sizes went to areas in the universe at higher than light speed and ending up in a black hole if you set the destination to black or priceless treasures since it was like betting against the odds and you'd live like a king for life while the world ate process protein made up of 4 common elements like carbon to make all the food in the world that tasted like crap, it was like 4 book series. So much read and so high or drinking brandy the entire time back in the days of youth.