Hard Luck Hank Books in Order

Corporations have displaced Belvaille's old gangs, filling the streets with heavily armed forces and leaving Hank's negotiating skills less useful. As he struggles to survive the changes he helped bring about, their power struggles reveal consequences far beyond the station.

Combining two story collections, this volume explores Delovoa's scientific work, experiments and exile alongside Hank's first years on Belvaille. Their early jobs, relationships and discoveries provide background to the characters and institutions encountered in the Hard Luck Hank novels.

As the Colmarian Confederation collapses, Hank struggles with his mutation's worsening effects while trying to keep Belvaille orderly. The station's first election, economic turmoil and an assassin's pursuit complicate his attempt to hold its competing factions together.

Bulletproof mutant Hank earns his living negotiating among the criminal gangs of remote space station Belvaille. A mysterious blue woman's job offer disrupts his comfortable routine and brings unwelcome galactic attention to a community accustomed to staying overlooked.

Hank accepts a city councillor's wife's request to spy on her husband, then finds himself in danger when the man is assassinated. Avoiding a murder accusation draws the mutant thug into increasingly powerful people's schemes and Belvaille's political conflicts.

Government policies have emptied Belvaille, prompting Hank to propose stealing from passing freighters to keep the city alive. Dangerous freedom fighters, a naval presence and his butler's warning of possible robotic war complicate his efforts to earn a living.

Working as Belvaille's official negotiator, Hank joins a glocken team as both player and protection when his butler becomes its manager. The brutal sport becomes still more dangerous as players disappear and rivalry exposes a conspiracy beyond fixed gambling results.

Belvaille becomes an entertainment centre for alien actors whose performances project overwhelming empathy. Hired to protect the stars, Hank must investigate murders and sabotaged productions as the violence threatens his impending marriage and draws the Navy's attention.

Hank feels little sorrow when his troublesome uncle is murdered, but investigating the death uncovers complications far beyond the man's usual mischief. The case takes him into unfamiliar regions of space and forces him to reconsider what he knows about reality.

Trained by the secretive Quadrad, Garm enters the galaxy determined to become a wealthy and lethal agent of change. Her inadequate funds, mismatched spaceship crew and a government hunting her make that ambition difficult to put into practice.

After an assassin kills visiting imperial aristocrats on Belvaille, Hank is entrusted with protecting the surviving child. He and his criminal friends must evade bounty hunters, the Navy and the killer while preventing a powerful empire's disastrous retaliation.