He is the law!
Has Mega-City One’s greatest lawman met his match?
In the nightmate future of Mega-City One, the Judges are all that holds the teeming citizens back from anarchy and lawlessness.
Dredd is one such man – he is judge, jury and when need be, executioner. He is the iron fist of law in a city of 400 million people, every one a potential criminal.
In this adventure, Dredd is on the hunt for Wess Smyth, a small-time hood who has unwittingly stumbled across the Skorpion – a dangerously unstable and highly powerful intelligent cybernetic firearm!
With a one-man crime wave stalking the streets of the metropolis, it falls to Judge Dredd to hunt down and stop a revenge-crazed killer; but a hidden conspiracy within the Justice Department itself threatens to make this case his last!
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AUTHOR’S NOTES:
My third 2000AD tie-in novel features a second adventure with Mega-City One’s elite peace officer, Judge Joe Dredd.
This novel had a somewhat tortuous origin, starting life as an outline for a Dredd audio drama called Weapon of Choice (which I later reused as one of the chapter titles); the first incarnation of Whiteout was set in the Antarctic and involved aliens and international intrigue, later becoming a story of Psi-Judges and a city-wide blizzard before finally morphing into the story of a petty crook and a gun that was smarter than he was. Where my first Judge Dredd novel Eclipse took place off-world, I wanted my next to be firmly grounded in the wild and crazy metropolis that was Mega-City One.
Among the references to elements from the Judge Dredd universe appearing in Whiteout are the Cursed Earth mutants the Gila-Munja, The Helltrekkers strip, the Angel Gang (from the “Judge Child” saga), the Wreckers, Judge DeKlerk and the Covert Operations Establishment, the Apocalypse War, the second robot revolution caused by crimelord Nero Narcos, Dredd’s ill-fated brother Rico, Otto Sump, the Black Plague spiders, a cameo by “camp vamp” Devlin Waugh (who also appears in my audio Grud Is Dead), The Maze, The Solar Sniper from way back in Prog #21 and M.A.C.H. 1, a clone of the Six Million Dollar Man series that ran in 2000AD‘s early years.
As ever, I also slipped in a few nods to various media; see if you can spot the references to Earth 2, Alias, 24, Grand Theft Auto, Tron and Dark Skies…
Mega-City One’s skyline is dominated by its citiblocks, huge arcologies packed with hundreds of thousands of citizens, and the massive meg-way roads that snake across the cityscape. In keeping with tradition set up by the comics, blocks and roads are named after real or fictional celebrities, and several of them feature in the novel, including ’50’s icon Chet Hunklev; Spaced characters Daisy Stiener and Tim Bisley, Judge Dredd audio director John Ainsworth, Futurama‘s Philip J Fry, Stargate‘s Daniel Jackson, The West Wing‘s Sam Seaborne, actors Rowdy Yates, Martin Shaw and Bruce Spence, writer Anne Rice and Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons and Dragons.
Along with all the other namechecks is Katy Hart, who appears in the novel as herself; at the Dreddcon event in 2003, 2000AD fan Katy won an auction to be “tuckerized” as a walk-on in the book.
The book also contains references to characters and events from Eclipse, my Judge Dredd Megazine story Passive/Aggressive and the novel Black Atlantic by my friend Peter J Evans. Luna-1 Tek-Judge Nathan Tyler, who had a small role in Eclipse, returns in Whiteout; his name is a reference to a character in my original Sundowners series of steampunk westerns.
