Whiteout is an original novel written by James Swallow

James Swallow

James Swallow is a British author and scriptwriter. He is the author of several original books and tie-in novels, as well as numerous audio dramas and videogames....

 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 Swallow's second Judge Dredd novel.

Synopsis

A powerful cybernetic weapon is stolen by a criminal. As Judge Dredd tries to retrieve it, Justice Department's shadowy Covert Operations Establishment tries to thwart him, and is willing to stop at nothing – even if it means killing Dredd himself.