“Christopher Brown looks to be cornering the market on future dystopias . . . ‘Rule of Capture’ is not just sci-fi, it’s also a legal thriller. Its author is himself a lawyer, just like John Grisham, and he has a grip on detail that full-time sci-fi authors can’t match.”

—The Wall Street Journal

“Rule of Capture is a taut, smart legal thriller set five minutes into the future in a dystopian postwar America that looks scarily plausible from the vantage point of 2019, and marks Brown as one of our most tuned-in science-fiction writers.”

—Adrian McKinty, Edgar and Ned Kelly Award–winning author of The Chain and Rain Dogs

“Peel back the dystopian and science-fiction layers of this fast-moving and entertaining story, and what remains is a smart, taut legal thriller bound to keep readers turning pages deep into the night.”

—Robert Bailey, bestselling author of the McMurtrie and Drake legal thriller series

“Interpersonal drama fuels the story as much as legal maneuvering, and Brown keeps tight control of his narrative even as this alternate America slips its gears.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This dark, dystopian story will appeal equally to readers of John Grisham and Cory Doctorow.”

—Booklist

“Put this one on the shelf next to Orwell.”

—Locus

“An exhilarating, all-too-real journey into a scary place, where the fall of democracy is sure to be streamlined: the courts. Chris Brown’s frenetic prose will keep you turning the pages, make you laugh, and fill you with horror—it’s the long-awaited, judicial dystopian thriller for our times.”

—Fernando Flores, author of Tears of the Trufflepig

“If this first installment is any indication, I will buy the others the day they appear on shelves, mute my phone, and cancel all appointments for the next couple of days.”

—Lone Star Literary Life

“Compelling, timely, and disturbing, Brown’s expertly crafted legal drama asks its reader a number of tough questions: When the collapse of society comes, what role will you play? Will you be complicit? Will you stand and fight? Or will you try to just carry on, business as usual? And perhaps more urgently: has that collapse already started?”

—Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail

“A sharp, no-holds-barred view into a desperate future that is terrifyingly close to our present. This is the stuff of which today’s nightmares are made.”

—Eileen Gunn, author of Questionable Practices

“Rule of Capture is a smart and stirring political thriller set in a dystopian America that feels like an unsettling version of our own waiting in the shadows. Brown’s world is deeply immersive, his concepts richly realized, his themes sweeping but centering on the imperative and cost of resisting tyranny.”

—Craig DiLouie, author of Our War

—Gavin J. Grant, Stoker Award–winning author and editor

“Magnificent.”

—Jack Womack, author of Random Acts of Senseless Violence and Ambient

“Read this! A dark, funny novel of homegrown revolution, constitutional crisis, and edgelands biology [deponent affirms he could not stop reading].”

—Endless Bookshelf