Boiling a Frog - Christopher Brookmyre

Devolution has opened up a new political culture in Scotland, gone are the days when the tabloids could ruin a career with a carefully timed smear campaign about their personal life, now the public take the view that what a politician does behind closed doors is their own personal business and no reflection on their ability to do their job, gone are the days when getting caught with your pants around your ankles and a vibrator up your bum would cost ...
...paedophile internet ring at the heart of politics which involves MP's from all the major parties (obviously not the Tories as in Scotland they are no a major party) and suddenly a new morality takes a grip where the voice of the church is once again dominant and spin doctors who have evidence of sleaze are back in control. The fact that all of the accused profess their innocence and that there are a few unanswered questions seems to bother no one ...

atticusuk 17.08.2006 · Read full review
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...the Night (1999) Boiling A Frog (2000) A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away (2001) ~ ~ In typical ‘mad cabbie’ style, I came across this author’s work almost by accident. I was recently engaged in one of my more pleasurable part-time pursuits of browsing the shelves of my local bookshop, when I picked up his fifth novel, ‘Boiling A Frog’, on the bargain counter at only €6.35. (reduced from €15) A quick glance through ...
...this particular book by Brookmyre, Boiling A Frog. Jack Parlabane, our freelance journo and erstwhile hero, has finally got his comeuppance, and ended up in the pokey, (prison) when he is captured by the ‘polis’ while burgling the headquarters of the Catholic Church in Scotland, in order to dig up the dirt required for his story, a practice he has been getting away with for years. At the same time his marriage to Sarah, a young hospital ...

the_mad_cabbie 16.04.2002 · Read full review
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...other Brookmyre books, re-appears in Boiling A Frog, but this time events have seen him end up in prison for breaking into some offices belonging to the Catholic church. Basically the church has seen it's numbers dwindle so they set out to manipulate some politicians and try and boost their numbers. The only problem is they decide to do this by hiring an old enemy of Parlabane's to do their PR. What follows is murder, a child porn scandal and other ...
...if you do you can spoil the twists in this book, but needless to say there are some twists in there. If you're planning to start reading Brookmyre books then I'd recommend another book such as "One Fine Day In The Middle of The Night" as this book seems to be an attempt at trying to kill of Parlabane in a way that allows him to be resurrected if needs be. As the book is set in prison for the large part it does seem to drag on and although it does ...

ayanayuk 06.07.2006 · Read full review
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