
Book I / The Record
Carpooling to Hell
Personal. Angry. Profane at times. Darkly funny. Immediate.
This is what it felt like inside the machine.
A three-book series / Justin A. Tahai
The record. The indictment.
The adversarial test.
Some wordplay is musical. This one is evidentiary. If you read Carpooling to Hell, you will understand where the extra “H-O” comes from. And no — it has nothing to do with Billy Idol.
Read in sequence / Books I–III
The history of record. The indictment. The adversarial test. Each book has its own page, its own tone, and a companion arcade.

Book I / The Record
Personal. Angry. Profane at times. Darkly funny. Immediate.
This is what it felt like inside the machine.

Book II / The Indictment
Formal. Research-grounded. Constitutional. Policy-driven.
This is why the machine produces foreseeable harm — and what the law should require instead.

Book III / The Adversarial Test
Cold. Adversarial. Precise. Theatrical because the record itself is theatrical.
You made the claim. Here is the evidence. Answer the question.
And beneath all three:
I just wanted to be a father.Justice does not belong to a profession. It belongs to the People — restore it.
“…PROMPTLY AND WITHOUT DELAY.”
Playable publishing slate
The same spine now runs through the interactive work: survive the record, build the indictment, then make the record answer the question.
Book I / The Record
Drive, survive, preserve the record, and recover Child Time before the Last Off-Ramp disappears.
Play Book I arcade →Book II / The Indictment
Build Fact → Source → Standard → Harm → Remedy chains and break the Presumption Engine.
Play Book II arcade →Book III / The Adversarial Test
You made the claim. Here is the evidence. Answer the question.
Play Book III arcade →
One Hell of a Bookmark
The publicly available Instrument of Justice now has a reading edition. Free STL on Thingiverse. Designed for books. Still not designed for comfort.
Another series by Justin A. Tahai
The institutions. The profession. The children left with the consequences.