Rockhounds — John M. Grier

Rockhounds -- An old fashioned space opera Childhood friends James Ferguson and Bill Johnson purchase a decrepit old spaceship from a salvage yard and set off to make their fortune where all the good money is…The Belt! The old ship is slow but powerful and once it gets to the asteroid belt, the pair stake their claim and become Rockhounds! In The Belt, the law is nearly nonexistent. They encounter pirates, damsels in distress, asteroid miners and the biggest find of them all…a find that will change everything!