THREE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED EPIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME from the Under Jurisdiction series by John W Campbell award finalist Susan R Matthews THE SECOND OF TWO SERIES OMNIBUS VOLUMES following Fleet Inquisitor This volume
Includes:: series entries Hour of Judgment The Devil & Deep Space & Warring States Fleet Renegade will be followed by the new Under Jurisdiction novel Blood Enemies Hour of Judgment Burkhayden is a subject colony leased by the Bench to a Dolgorukij familial corporation for economic exploitation When a Nurail woman from the service house is brutally raped & beaten Andrej Koscuisko –- Ship’s Inquisitor on board the Jurisdiction Fleet Ship Ragnarok –- is called upon to render services under contract Before one fateful night is out Andrej Koscuisko will put himself under sentence of death by doing what he realizes at last he should have done from the beginning & Port Burkhayden will burn The Devil & Deep Space Andrej Koscuisko the Ragnarok’s Ship&s Inquisitor is going home on leave His ship of assignment is participating in training exercises & when an observer station unexpectedly explodes Andrej will have to fight Fleet itself to bring the Ragnarok the only thing that can save the ship & crew from destruction –- a single piece of evidence with the potential to change the course of the history of Jurisdiction Space forever Warring States Chilleau Judiciary’s senior administrative officer has been murdered in the very heart of Chambers Bench Intelligence Specialist Jils Ivers has been unable to ferret out the perpetrator & that means she’s the Bench’s prime candidate for execution –- so that justice may be seen to have been done whether or not she is guilty Andrej Koscuisko means to take this opportunity to execute a daring theft & if he is successful the rule of Law will be rocked to its very core & the fundamental nature of the Bench will be changed forever Meet the Author Susan R Matthews was raised in a military family & spent her younger years living around the globe in a myriad of places including Germany both coasts of the US & India Often cut off from television & other media she read voraciously Her first encounters with science fiction came via classics such as I Robot & Stranger in a Strange Land Matthews& debut novel An Exchange of Hostages the first entry in her critically acclaimed Under Jurisdiction series was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award Matthews was also a finalist for the John W Campbell award for best new writer There are now seven novels in the Under Jurisdiction series The first six are collected in two omnibus editions Fleet Inquisitor & upcoming Fleet Renegade The newest entry in the series is Blood Enemies published by Baen Books Matthews lives in Seattle with her wife Maggie & two delightful dogs She is a veteran of the US Army where she served as operations & security officer of a combat support hospital She is also an avid HAM radio operator