Chapter ThreeThe Long Arm of the Law
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted all else follows.”
— George Orwell, 1984.
Some may have seen the irony in it, but no one was surprised by the announcement that Mandi Moon Gampers had been appointed as Chief of the Juvenile Division. Of course the fact that she was related to the Handicapper General didn’t hurt. But still Mandi had efficiently if ruthlessly worked her way up through the Equity Protection Agency, where she was widely known as “the Bulldog.” Her forte was her iron-willed determination, to which some attributed the nickname. But for others, the tag leapt to mind with one look at her burly build: the short stout legs and muscular shoulders, the squat face with its squashed-in features that n
