"The New Frontiers Series, Book One: The Ship" by Jack L Knapp

"The New Frontiers Series, Book One: The Ship" by Jack L Knapp
    https://www.amazon.com/New-Frontiers-Book-One-Ship/dp/1720012105/
Book number one of a eight book science fiction space opera series.  I reread the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback self published by the author in 2018.  I have all eight books in the series and am rereading them now with the number seven and eight books that I just bought from Big River.
Wow, great story.  An older engineer buys a bunch of Nikola Tesla's journals in an old chest and spots a design for an "electric turbine" that was never built.  He builds a working version of the electric impeller after many restarts and has an anti-gravity device.  The rest of the story concerns project funding and building various containers for the electric impeller and various peoples trying to steal the design.
The writing of the story is a little bit rough, a little more editing would have been good.  But for me, the story is always the most important thing.  This is my second read so that makes it a five star book for me.  In fact, I may add this book to my six star list.
BTW, this is not the first time that a story has been written similar to this.  Several stories have "magical" engines for space drives.  A very similar book is John Varley's most excellent "Red Thunder" which uses the squeezer drive.
     https://www.amazon.com/Red-Thunder-Lightning-Novel/dp/0441011624/
The reason why I like these stories so much is that it is not just the new drive device, it is also the design and work to build the container around the new device.  Another person pointed out that a similar story is Pournelle's "High Justice".
My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.2 out of 5 stars (514 reviews)
Lynn