Kingdom of the Blind is an original novel written by David Bishop

David Bishop

David Bishop is a screenwriter and author. Born in New Zealand, he was a UK comics editor during the 1990s, running such titles as the Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD, the latter between 1996 and the summer of 2000....

 and based on the long-running British science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 comic strip

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 Judge Dredd

Judge Dredd

Judge Joseph Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...

. It is Bishop's fifth Judge Dredd novel. He later blogged: "I swore I'd never, ever, ever write another Judge Dredd novel."

Synopsis

Senior judges from all over the world arrive in Mega-City One

Mega-City One

Mega-City One is a huge fictional city-state covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. The exact boundaries of the city depend on which artist has drawn the story...

 to negotiate an extradition treaty and Judge Dredd is assigned to manage security. A major criminal mastermind chooses this moment to try to take over the city.

External link

• Kingdom of the Blind at the 2000 AD website (note: the "reprint material" section erroneously refers to another story).