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BOILING A FROG.
Christopher Brookmyre.

Dust Jacket .
New century.
New Parliament.
New Scotland.
Aye, right.

That the new, cooperative and consensual era of Scottish politics should
very quickly begin to resemble all the old, back-stabbing,eye-gouging eras
was no great surprise. New eras in politics take shape slowly, and you
don’t realise you’re in the midst of change until that change is well
underway. The political animal, the political observer and the political
electorate are, like amphibians, poikilothermic - their own temperatures
adjust to that of their environment, so that if a change is gradual enough,
they won’t even notice it.

Nonetheless, though everyone was well used to the government stealing ideas
from the Tories, you’d have got long odds on the next one being “Back to
Basics”. But that was before the Edinburgh Executive was banjoed by a sex
scandal so odious that even New Labour couldn’t spin their way out of it.

Now it’s like the early Nineties all over again. Bedroom morality is once
more dominating the political agenda, cabinet careers are back in the gift
of the shag-rags, and the clergy are having delusions of relevance.

The churches have done rather well out of the affair in fact, as has the
previously underwhelming Labour aparatchick Elspeth Doyle, and the former
tabloid editor Ian Beade, who these days operates in “the paramilitary
wing” of the PR industry.

This is precisely the sort of convenient coincidence Jack Parlabane was
born to investigate. Problem is, he’d have to get out of jail first, and
several of his fellow inmates haven’t forgotten the investigative hack who
put them there in the first place…

Sex. Perversion. Murder. Floor-polishing.

Boiling A Frog: get ready to turn up the heat.

Christopher Brookmyre was born in Glasgow in 1968, and has worked as a
journalist in London, Los Angeles and Edinburgh, contributing to Screen
International, The Scotsman, the Evening News and The Absolute Game. In
1976 he became a St Mirren supporter. He was at the Hammarby game. This may
explain a great deal.

His first novel, Quite Ugly One Morning, was published in 1996 to popular
and critical acclaim, and wond the inaugural First Blood Award for the best
first crime novel of the year. This success was followed up with the