What happens when criminals run the government? In Dale and Kaila Halling’s riveting Pendulum of Justice, one victim takes the law into his own hands. Hank Rangar is a computer expert who tries to get start-up technology companies off the ground. His nemesis is the U.S. Patent Office, which interminably delays patent applications that are crucial for his companies’ business prospects and funding.

Behind the delays are the crony capitalism and corruption we’ve come to expect from our government. No crime is too heinous for the Brioni clad crooks who want to steal Rangar’s companies’ technologies and put them out of business―all in the public interest, of course. One of Ragnar’s start-ups has a technology that could cure his sister’s heart condition, but bureaucratic skullduggery threatens her life. Also in danger is his love interest, a beautiful reporter on the trail of behind-the-scenes criminality within the government.

It has been said that a person becomes a revolutionary when he is willing to lose everything, and you’ll cheer Ragnar’s chillingly ingenious revolt. The novel offers another reminder that as government gets bigger and more intrusive, it grows ever more arbitrary and corrupt. It could have been more tightly edited, but that’s a quibble against a fast paced, imaginative story with a refreshingly anti-statist theme. Pendulum of Justice, and the books that follow in the Hank Ragnar series, will find a widespread readership among the growing legions who distrust and despise our government and want to root for a hero who battles against it.

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