The Persistent, Book Two: Judges and Judgements

by Ben E. Lewis

Never work with children or animals…or family…or drunkards…or computers…In fact, if given the choice, don’t work with anyone you remotely dislike or would certainly hate after spending years in isolation with them. If only Janine Roebuck had stuck to this sage advice and stayed at home. Maybe then the unfortunate chain of events leading to her being stranded out in no man’s space would never have come to pass. As if that weren’t bad enough, she had to go and turn all suicidal, then find a sense of guilt and conscience and end up feeling worse off than she did in the first place. A bad day rapidly turns into a bad lifetime as Janine, her absent-minded sister Marilyn, war veteran turned alcoholic Adolph and a computer with not only a personality but an ego problem, are all entangled in an interstellar conspiracy of mammoth proportions. Along the way they encounter more enemies than friends and begin to find that not everything is as it seems and no one can be entirely trusted. And all Janine ever wanted was to get home and get some well-earned peace, but peace is the last thing the galaxy is heading towards…In Book Judges and Judgements, Janine faces tough justice and a race against time to escape from both psychopathic prisoners and a planetary ticking time bomb.

143 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2020

About the author

Ben E. Lewis is a writer, teacher, husband and pedant from Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

In June 2019 he realised a long-standing ambition to circumvent the negative label of vanity publishing and put out his first book “In the Shade of the Sun” through Amazon’s KDP system. He followed up this once-in-a-lifetime achievement with the second novel in the Palmer and Evans series, “In the Cool of the Moment” in November of that same year and third and fourth volumes “In the Name of the Dark” and “In the Shallows of the Sea” the year after.

Breaking from tradition, he travelled back in time 22 years and reactivated a sci-fi epic he began writing in his teens which was published early in 2020 as the doorstop-alternative “The Persistent” (also available in five Tolkienesque volumes).

When he’s not planning needlessly elaborate psychological crime trails across Europe, he’s planning the holidays which inspire them. Oh, and lessons too. He’s always planning lessons of course.

Seek him out on Twitter or Instagram to nitpick things he loves or things he’s written on @simfelemy.