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James Roxby: Scales of Tomorrow
What if the justice system didn’t collapse… but was replaced?
In Scales of Tomorrow, Michael Holding delivers a chilling political thriller where reform doesn’t come through debate — it comes through force.
Australia’s legal system has been overhauled overnight. Judges are gone. Trials are streamlined. Life sentences mean life. Prisons are no longer “correctional facilities” — they are penal institutions.
The public calls it progress. The political class calls it dangerous.
James Roxby — former SAS operative, now embedded within FOCUS, the AFP’s covert enforcement unit — is sent to investigate what appears to be a routine fatal crash. It isn’t.
Beneath the surface, factions within the system are fighting back. Careers are on the line. Power is shifting. And someone inside the Australian Federal Police is prepared to use violence to restore the old order.
As Roxby moves through a maze of bureaucratic warfare, covert operations and institutional sabotage, he discovers a truth more confronting than
Justice was never neutral. It was controlled.
And now, control is up for grabs.
Scales of Tomorrow is a hard-edged Australian thriller about power, punishment, and the price of reform — where the line between law enforcement and execution grows dangerously thin.
For readers who enjoy intelligent political thrillers with real-world bite.
In Scales of Tomorrow, Michael Holding delivers a chilling political thriller where reform doesn’t come through debate — it comes through force.
Australia’s legal system has been overhauled overnight. Judges are gone. Trials are streamlined. Life sentences mean life. Prisons are no longer “correctional facilities” — they are penal institutions.
The public calls it progress. The political class calls it dangerous.
James Roxby — former SAS operative, now embedded within FOCUS, the AFP’s covert enforcement unit — is sent to investigate what appears to be a routine fatal crash. It isn’t.
Beneath the surface, factions within the system are fighting back. Careers are on the line. Power is shifting. And someone inside the Australian Federal Police is prepared to use violence to restore the old order.
As Roxby moves through a maze of bureaucratic warfare, covert operations and institutional sabotage, he discovers a truth more confronting than
Justice was never neutral. It was controlled.
And now, control is up for grabs.
Scales of Tomorrow is a hard-edged Australian thriller about power, punishment, and the price of reform — where the line between law enforcement and execution grows dangerously thin.
For readers who enjoy intelligent political thrillers with real-world bite.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 13, 2025
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