Ex-Police Officers, Noir Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Adventure KOP Killer, a darkly dystopian science fiction thriller from Warren HammondJuno Mozambe once had a life. That was when he was a dirty cop, married to a woman who suffered such profound abuse that she murdered her vile, drug kingpin father. Juno loved his wife and did his best to help her survive her guilt, her drug habit, and her desire to end her life on the dead-end planet of Lagarto.When she died, however, Juno’s life went downhill. And then his first partner, the corrupt chief of the Koba Office of Police, was murdered. The man responsible, Emil Mota, is using the KOP for his personal gain. Juno has been laying low, but now he’s ready to do whatever it takes to take down the bastard.Rather than working from inside the system, he’s decided that the only way to take down the KOP is to create an independent base of power. So he gets involved with a team of dirty cops and starts working as a rent-a-thug for a whorehouse that needs protection.Juno’s last partner knows that his risky plan has a purpose, but she’s that rarest of creatures on the hothouse planet of Lagarto: an honest cop. She can’t help him.When Juno discovers a series of profoundly twisted murders, he faces a bleak possibility: in his desperate quest for vengeance against the man who targeted him for death, Juno may have placed himself beyond any hope of redemption....Review“Hammond’s writing is workman-like with occasional terse highlights, offering rewards to fans of both crime novels and science fiction.” —Publishers Weekly“The best SF Noir since Richard K. Morgan. Gritty and gruesome with the punch of a high-velocity bullet.”  —Kat RichardsonReview“Hammond’s writing is workman-like with occasional terse highlights, offering rewards to fans of both crime novels and science fiction.”  —Publishers Weekly“The best SF Noir since Richard K. Morgan. Gritty and gruesome with the punch of a high-velocity bullet.”  —Kat Richardson

Maritinia is at the far edge of the Empire, a planet with little economic value in the Sire's sphere of influence. And it's just rebelled.The people of Maritinia believe the Empire will not care that they've broken free. But the Empire is built on the belief that if an insignificant planet can revolt, then other, more important planets might follow suit.So the Empire sends an agent to Maritinia with a mission: assassinate and replace one of the conspirators, and do enough to sow discord that when the soldiers do land, any opposition will be quickly crushed.Thus Jakob finds himself immersed in the inner circle of the madman who led the rebellion. A raw recruit with only his political officer—a separate consciousness inserted into his brain—to speak with, Jakob is out of his element as an operative. And while he falls deeper into the conspiracy, he begins to question everything: the despotic admiral in charge of the coup, his feelings for a...