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2000 AD Audio #11
Judge Dredd: 99 Code Red!
Synopsis
There's a big new attraction at the White Cliffs of Dover, a Brit-Cit theme park where the inhabitants of Mega-City One can blow off steam. But the local law enforcement officers have got a grudge, because the famous Judge Dredd is patrolling on sector rotation, and that means they can't be as easy as usual on the tourists.
When Dredd finds arch-snitch Max Normal running for the radioactive hills, he suspects that there's more to a recent laboratory break-in than meets the eye. Someone has stolen three precious vials of a lethal plague, and they intend to release it in a public place.
But as the barometer rises and tempers fray, Dredd has to call in a Code Red - the signal for a wounded Judge in need of immediate assistance. With Mega-City One in the grip of a fearsome tempest and all aerial vehicles grounded, Dredd must brave the overcrowded, understaffed squalour of Mega-City General, soon in the grip of a viral outbreak. Dredd must lock the hospital down before the occupants take the disease outside. But there are several patients who will do anything to escape, even if it means carrying a lethal virus into the streets of Mega-City One!
Things are just about to get Ugly. And we mean that.
There's a big new attraction at the White Cliffs of Dover, a Brit-Cit theme park where the inhabitants of Mega-City One can blow off steam. But the local law enforcement officers have got a grudge, because the famous Judge Dredd is patrolling on sector rotation, and that means they can't be as easy as usual on the tourists.
When Dredd finds arch-snitch Max Normal running for the radioactive hills, he suspects that there's more to a recent laboratory break-in than meets the eye. Someone has stolen three precious vials of a lethal plague, and they intend to release it in a public place.
But as the barometer rises and tempers fray, Dredd has to call in a Code Red - the signal for a wounded Judge in need of immediate assistance. With Mega-City One in the grip of a fearsome tempest and all aerial vehicles grounded, Dredd must brave the overcrowded, understaffed squalour of Mega-City General, soon in the grip of a viral outbreak. Dredd must lock the hospital down before the occupants take the disease outside. But there are several patients who will do anything to escape, even if it means carrying a lethal virus into the streets of Mega-City One!
Things are just about to get Ugly. And we mean that.
- GenresScience FictionAudiobook
Audio CD
First published September 23, 2003
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About the author
Jonathan Clements
153 books124 followersJonathan Clements is an author, translator, biographer and scriptwriter. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Marco Polo, Mao Zedong, Koxinga and Qin Shihuangdi. He also writes for NEO magazine and is the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas.
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August 10, 2021
Very interesting take. More suspense and investigation less guns and killing. A plague is being release and only judge Dredd can make the investigation.
it was very different than previous novels so I can honestly say I really enjoyed.
it was very different than previous novels so I can honestly say I really enjoyed.
July 27, 2025
Really smart writing. Some of the jokes would do the Looney Tunes proud.
January 25, 2018
You can read the full review over at my blog:
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Shadowhawk reviews another Judge Dredd audio drama for his Advent Reviews series. This is Day 16.
“As a first introduction to the Judge Dredd/Mega City One setting, this is utterly fantastic.” ~The Founding Fields
I’m on a bit of a roll with Judge Dredd reviews for my Advent Reviews series (which you can follow here): I’ve done two audio drama reviews already, and have also done a comic review featuring the big bad Judge Dredd himself. It’s fun to go back to listening to these great audio pieces by Big Finish, who produce some truly amazing work. 99 Code Red is no exception. It was my first taste of the whole franchise (the Stallone-starrer notwithstanding) and it was highly enjoyable.
The story here is that some criminals have stolen vials of a very dangerous plague solution from a laboratory and are planning on infecting everyone in the Big Meg with it. Their chosen “point of contact” is the opening of the new Shakespeare play at the White Cliffs of Dover, which is a theme park in the city and is modeled after life in Ye Olde England. Jonathan Clements writing is superb. He shows off a variety of the goofiest characters of the Big Meg, from a group of strippers and their pimp to the self-serving and self-involved journalist Enigma Smith. There are lots of commentaries about the modern-day world as well, such as when noted play critic Adrian remarks why the theme park is putting on a play by a nobody like Shakespeare when they could be putting on stuff by (J.K.) Rowling and (Terry) Pratchett. Or how the traditional dishes of Ye Olde England are kebab and tikka (note: these are Indian subcontinent dishes actually). Simply, this audio makes you laugh a lot. It is silly at times, yes, but it is the good type of silly. It simply shows off how goofy the whole setting itself it, even though it has a very serious tone as this is very much a (sort of) post-apocalyptic world. The second half of the audio drama focuses on Dredd as he tries to contain the spread of the plague and here it all turns into a sort of police procedural/detective story, with lots of dead bodies floating around. The scenes set in the Mega City General Hospital are just as (seriously) entertaining as the ones from the streets of the Big Meg and at the theme park from the first half of the audio drama. The tension really does ramp up and it’s all simply wonderful.
https://shadowhawksshade.wordpress.co...
Shadowhawk reviews another Judge Dredd audio drama for his Advent Reviews series. This is Day 16.
“As a first introduction to the Judge Dredd/Mega City One setting, this is utterly fantastic.” ~The Founding Fields
I’m on a bit of a roll with Judge Dredd reviews for my Advent Reviews series (which you can follow here): I’ve done two audio drama reviews already, and have also done a comic review featuring the big bad Judge Dredd himself. It’s fun to go back to listening to these great audio pieces by Big Finish, who produce some truly amazing work. 99 Code Red is no exception. It was my first taste of the whole franchise (the Stallone-starrer notwithstanding) and it was highly enjoyable.
The story here is that some criminals have stolen vials of a very dangerous plague solution from a laboratory and are planning on infecting everyone in the Big Meg with it. Their chosen “point of contact” is the opening of the new Shakespeare play at the White Cliffs of Dover, which is a theme park in the city and is modeled after life in Ye Olde England. Jonathan Clements writing is superb. He shows off a variety of the goofiest characters of the Big Meg, from a group of strippers and their pimp to the self-serving and self-involved journalist Enigma Smith. There are lots of commentaries about the modern-day world as well, such as when noted play critic Adrian remarks why the theme park is putting on a play by a nobody like Shakespeare when they could be putting on stuff by (J.K.) Rowling and (Terry) Pratchett. Or how the traditional dishes of Ye Olde England are kebab and tikka (note: these are Indian subcontinent dishes actually). Simply, this audio makes you laugh a lot. It is silly at times, yes, but it is the good type of silly. It simply shows off how goofy the whole setting itself it, even though it has a very serious tone as this is very much a (sort of) post-apocalyptic world. The second half of the audio drama focuses on Dredd as he tries to contain the spread of the plague and here it all turns into a sort of police procedural/detective story, with lots of dead bodies floating around. The scenes set in the Mega City General Hospital are just as (seriously) entertaining as the ones from the streets of the Big Meg and at the theme park from the first half of the audio drama. The tension really does ramp up and it’s all simply wonderful.
May 16, 2011
Wow..... this had it all.
Fun, action and twists + all the goofy occupants of Big Meg.
Love it.
Fun, action and twists + all the goofy occupants of Big Meg.
Love it.
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