Jango Fett, bounty hunter Book

Really enjoyed this book when I found it before a long train journey in the mid-90s. It's hard sci fi, with a forensic bent and a well worked out detective story.
Book 1 - the ancient skeleton found on the moon, and another alien spacecraft found on Ganymede begin a story of humanity's origin. Books 2 and 3 introduce the aliens of the present day and the story turns from scientific exploration to a more political story of war and peace.
Unfortunately, it has dated very badly in places - someone else's review describes the tortuous page explaining to someone how to print a screen on a printer.
Our hero is headhunted and asked to go into space, and given a new wage of and astounding $30,000, with all the air and space travel he could wish for. I guess the author is projecting from 1977 prices before the property price boom.
Also distracting is how everyone smokes. Ashtrays being provided is repeatedly mentioned as good manners. the ultimate luxury is a Havana cigar offered by the boss, and women are talked down to as good little housekeepers - they are all pretty and one or two are clever, but they have no agency - they never have jobs of their own, except as mini-Mata Hari's to seduce men and take their secrets back to their real bosses.

There are further sequels which are harder to get into. Book 4, Entoverse, begins very weird - people wave their hands through solid objects, and it's hard to work out what's happening. It turns out that an analogy of life has evolved inside the data of a huge supercomputer, which starts affecting real people when they use virtual reality communication devices and end up being possessed by the data characters. It's a good idea, but the way you are thrown into the data world's culture with no explanation makes it a very tough read the first time.

I know it's of it's time, but I was also slightly disappointed that the one time sexuality comes up, it's painted as a predatory lesbian and her victim. I suppose it's one up from lesbian sex as titillation for the boys, but demonising the concept isn't much better, particularly for something set in a supposedly socially-improved future. But you can't moan too much. Even in 2400, Star Trek can cure most illnesses, but it still can't keep a gay character alive for more than an episode or two.