When a chance call to the Justice Department’s snitch-line turns up two undercover Vatican Inquisitors and the foremost occult adventurer on earth, Judge Dredd finds himself at the centre of a plot that stretches all the way to the Holy City!
Somewhere in the Vatican’s ancient catacombs, a ruthless age-old sect have discovered a terrifying secret that threatens the existence of the Church and the future of all creation – and to fulfil their mad schemes, one man must be sacrificed… None other than the debonaire vampire exorcist Devlin Waugh!
Alone and isolated, Dredd must face a sacred conspiracy and rescue Devlin before the fate of mankind!
Can this unlikely duo challenge the heavens themselves, or will they fall before The Will of Grud?
Written by James Swallow, from a story by Simon Jowett, directed by John Ainsworth, starring Toby Longworth (Judge Dredd), Peter Guinness (Devlin Waugh), Katarina Olsson (Concepcion), Daniel Barzotti (Sextus), Jez Fielder (Logan) & Ian Brooker (Cesare).
AUTHOR’S NOTES
Between 2002-03, audio drama production company Big Finish brought the comicbook heroes of 2000AD to life with a series of adventures for Judge Dredd – the future’s hardest lawman – and mutant bounty hunter Strontium Dog; following the success of the first season of discs, a second series of six CDs were released in 2004.
After taking Judge Joe Dredd to the limit in the hijacking drama Judge Dredd: Dreddline and then pitting him against a cadre of vicious warrior clones in Judge Dredd: Jihad, Big Finish brought me on board once more for a story that took Dredd around the world to the mysterious and little-seen territory of Vatican City, the papal city-state ruled by the Judge-Inquisitors of the Catholic Church. Grud is Dead brought the tough Mega-City Judge back together with the dandy vampire exorcist Devlin Waugh (star of stories like “Swimming in Blood” and “Red Tide”), leading to a buddy-cop adventure with these mismatched heroes challenging a group of religious extremists.
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