The Arbitrator

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WAS THERE A PANG OF REMORSE FOR HIS ACTIONS? POSSIBLY, BUT WHAT CHOICE DID HE HAVE? HE HAD NO ROOM FOR WEAKNESS, IF HE WANTED TO SURVIVE.
Jim Brown, formerly a highly successful, but ruthless, troubleshooting Administrator for the EPA, The Earth Policy Administration, was rotting in prison, dying of an incurable drug habit that he had acquired whilst in there. His only hope was a very expensive regeneration process, if he was to survive. This habit should already have killed a lesser man, but somehow he was clinging on.
After surviving 10 years of his sentence, ostensibly for tax evasion, he is suddenly given a reprieve and offered a chance to redeem himself. He is sent as 'The Arbitrator' to 'Pirrus', an Earth colony world in another solar system, to try and stop a rebellion and bring matters under control. Though his title conveys that he is there to negotiate, but in reality he is there to enforce a settlement.
If successful he will be a rich man again and can go back to Earth for his regeneration treatment, but he is running out of time as the deadline for the treatment to be effective, looms.
Jim Brown is a man in a hurry but manages to to end the rebellion within three weeks and capture the rebel leaders. He thinks he has accomplished his task and is getting ready to execute the rebel leaders, when he meets Gina, the daughter of one of the rebels. She has come to plead for her father's life.
Under the influence of the drugs, which he is still addicted to, Brown ruthlessly exploits the situation to his advantage and seduces Gina in exchange for letting all the prisoners go. He then finds out from her that there is a plot by other foreign off-world powers to invade Pirrus. Brown is at a loss to understand why anybody would be interested in such a backwater of a planet, but he has no time to take his hard earned cash and get away to Earth. The drugs have made him a man without much of a conscience, preoccupied only with his own survival. He decides to force Gina to cooperate so he can get to the bottom of the situation.
The plot thickens as his old life suddenly begins to catch up with him and he also discovers that there is a mole in his organisation, who is undermining his efforts to succeed.
HOW WILL BROWN REACT TO THIS DEVASTATING NEWS?
New 2nd EDITION with added chapters. Received Many 5* REVIEWS on GOODREADS.