Venetian Court

The Plaintiff, Universal Patents, Inc., was heartless.The judge, Rex "e;Spider"e; Speyer was merciless. Ellen Welles' case seemed hopeless.Unless her lawyer could locate the mad creator of FAUST - the robot-inventor who'd given Universal Patents its stranglehold on the world economy - she was sure to die for patent infringement, a capital crime in the twenty-first century.Quentin Thomas, Ellen's lawyer, already knew that the judge was a psychopath, and he quickly learned just how dirty Universal could play...