THREE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED EPIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS TOGETHER FOR THEFIRST TIME from the Under Jurisdiction series by John W. Campbell award finalistSusan R. Matthews. THE FIRST OF TWO SERIES OMNIBUS VOLUMES. This volume includesseries entries An Exchange of Hostages, Prisoner of Conscience, and Angel ofDestruction. Volume Two—Fleet Renegade will be followed by the new UnderJurisdiction novel Blood Enemies.

An Exchange of Hostages
UnderJurisdiction torture isn't about truth. It's about terror.

TheJurisdiction's Bench has come to rely on the institutionalized atrocities of theProtocols to maintain its control of an increasingly unstable politicalenvironment. When Andrej Koscuisko, a talented young doctor, reports toorientation as a Ship's Inquisitor he will discover in himself something farworse than a talent for inflicting grotesque torments on the Bench's enemies. Hewill confront a passion for the exercise of the Writ to Inquire, whose intensitythreatens to consume him utterly.

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