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JUDGES: Golgotha
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2041 A.D.
“The last police academy in the country has just passed out its last officer. That’s you.”
All Errol Quon ever wanted was to be a cop. Friends, family—even the instructors at the academy—urged her to quit, but she stuck to it, becoming the last cop ever to graduate.
Quon’s assigned to Golgotha, Alabama, and partnered up with Judge Unity Kurzweil, hunting a lead on an old case. And there’s still a few things the last cop can teach one of the first Judges...?
“The last police academy in the country has just passed out its last officer. That’s you.”
All Errol Quon ever wanted was to be a cop. Friends, family—even the instructors at the academy—urged her to quit, but she stuck to it, becoming the last cop ever to graduate.
Quon’s assigned to Golgotha, Alabama, and partnered up with Judge Unity Kurzweil, hunting a lead on an old case. And there’s still a few things the last cop can teach one of the first Judges...?
120 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 24, 2019
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
August 27, 2020
The first story in the JUDGES Volume Two collection, is written by Michael Carroll himself, and continues much like the first book, merging the world today with the possibility of the world of Judge Dredd.
The last of the new police recruits are graduating from the Police Academies and we start to see Judges taking a more active roll, overriding local police. The story is again based in a fairly small town America, a location that I believe will end up being part of the Cursed Earth. This allows for an interesting change of pace for the bigger cities. The downside to setting the story in a remote location is there is little mention of the country-wide changes, other than the academies, especially since the we are getting into period where the Mega-Cities were planned and built.
I did enjoy this story and writing style. It is written as a short story and it tells a short story well, but it also left me wanting more. I was just getting to know the characters and feeling the setup for whats to come, then the story ends. It was good, but not great.
The last of the new police recruits are graduating from the Police Academies and we start to see Judges taking a more active roll, overriding local police. The story is again based in a fairly small town America, a location that I believe will end up being part of the Cursed Earth. This allows for an interesting change of pace for the bigger cities. The downside to setting the story in a remote location is there is little mention of the country-wide changes, other than the academies, especially since the we are getting into period where the Mega-Cities were planned and built.
I did enjoy this story and writing style. It is written as a short story and it tells a short story well, but it also left me wanting more. I was just getting to know the characters and feeling the setup for whats to come, then the story ends. It was good, but not great.
October 30, 2019
I am loving the Judges series, and this book moves things on a decade from The Avalanche, with the justice department establishing its powers, and the police system starting to wind down. This story follows the last cop to graduate from police academy, and how she finds her place in a police system that is becoming obsolete.
I really enjoyed this story. Although it's billed as a novella, it packs a lot of story in, and is probably longer than many of the pulp novels of the genre from a couple of decades back. There are quite a lot of characters, but only a few that you really need to pay attention to. I did feel that the story could run for another hundred pages to explore some of the side plots that aren't fully resolved, and I'd have been engrossed the whole way.
I really enjoyed this story. Although it's billed as a novella, it packs a lot of story in, and is probably longer than many of the pulp novels of the genre from a couple of decades back. There are quite a lot of characters, but only a few that you really need to pay attention to. I did feel that the story could run for another hundred pages to explore some of the side plots that aren't fully resolved, and I'd have been engrossed the whole way.
April 19, 2020
Excellent!
August 9, 2020
A brilliant grounded crime yarn that gives as an alternative angle of the Judges persuit of justice. Visceral, gritty and recommended.
August 17, 2019
I did enjoy this but far too many characters and plot threads for a novella meant it was a little confused. I'm enjoying the backstory of Mega City One and the Judge system, though, and Michael Carroll is one of the best.
December 26, 2019
The author does an excellent job of developing the characters in a relatively short amount of time, and the action scenes are well done too.
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