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 FIRST OF TWO SERIES OMNIBUS VOLUMES This volume
Includes:: series entries An Exchange of Hostages Prisoner of Conscience & Angel of Destruction Volume Two Fleet Renegade will be followed by the new Under Jurisdiction novel Blood Enemies An Exchange of Hostages Under Jurisdiction torture isn’t about truth It s about terror The Jurisdiction’s Bench has come to rely on the institutionalized atrocities of the Protocols to maintain its control of an increasingly unstable political environment When Andrej Koscuisko a talented young doctor reports to orientation as a Ship’s Inquisitor he will discover in himself something far worse than a talent for inflicting grotesque torments on the Bench’s enemies He will confront a passion for the exercise of the Writ to Inquire whose intensity threatens to consume him utterly As Andrej struggles to find some thread of justice & compassion under the Law & to hang on to what remains of his sanity he will make powerful enemies who are eager to use his knowledge his empathy & his passion against anyone who challenges the Bench Prisoner of Conscience He wanted to be a doctor but his family sent him to be a Ship’s Inquisitor Only his fierce determination to hold to justice wherever he can find it has preserved his sanity his own force of will & a peculiar partnership with a man condemned by the Bench to serve on pain of agonizing punishment inflicted by the governor in his brain In Port Rudistal a defeated people have been consigned to the authority of their ancestral enemies to suffer & work & die like cattle Bereft of his friend drunk on absolute license to work his will on prisoner after prisoner will Andrej realize what horrors are contained within the walls of the Domitt Prison & can he bring the truth to light before his enemies silence him forever? Angel of Destruction Bench Intelligence Specialist Garol Vogel is one of an elite few chartered by the Bench to uphold the Jurisdiction’s rule of Law by any means he sees fit to rewrite policy assassinate corrupt officials & topple planetary governments at his Jurisdiction’s discretion His most treasured achievement was the amnesty he brokered for the Langsarik rebels But someone is raiding depot stations in the Shawl of Rikavie around Port Charid torturing & murdering with unprecedented savagery Vogel knows the Langsariks are innocent but who could be to blame & how can he prevent a Judicial crime of horrific proportions? Garol Vogel finds the answer on the wrong side of the Judicial order he s served faithfully all his life & once he sets foot on a path of subversion & sabotage there will be no going back ever