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- Publisher: Unknown (2001)
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This review is from: Water of Death (Hardcover)
In 2025, compared with the anarchy that surrounds it, Edinburgh remains a calm island of no crime. Though rationing is a way of life and entertainment only comes in the form of a festival for tourists, the clever City Council occupies the restless residents with a weekly lottery. How can individuals not play when a five-minute shower a day is a potential prize. However, a missing person interrupts the lottery nirvana when Kennedy, a winner, simply vanishes. Rumors spread quickly, and the concerned Edinburgh leadership hires private investigator Quint Dalrymple to quickly learn the truth. Before he can solve that case, murdered bodies begin to appear in the Leith, leaving the City Council in a panic, a city in fear, and a pressured Quint trying to stop a body count from growing any further. Award winning Paul Johnston's world is radically different from that of today. Global warming has reached extreme levels turning the climate into the Big Heat. Everything seems rationed and centrally controlled. Still Quint remains an interesting character with his obsession for the blues standing out in this drab world. Mr. Johnston brings in his full cast from the previous two books, but instead of the welcome return of old friends, this sends a clever story line spinning into chaos greater than his surrounding countryside. Doomsday fanatics will relish WATER OF DEATH and its predecessors for its descriptive look at an apparently dying society trying to survive. However, readers of other science fiction sub-genres will struggle with the plot's anarchy. Harriet Klausner
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I was lying in the Meadows with a book and a heat-induced headache, making the most of the shade provided by one of the few trees with any leaves left on it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
public order guardian, auxiliary training programme, poisoned whisky, tourism guardian, auxiliary knife, senior guardian, demoted auxiliary, demoted auxiliaries, senior auxiliaries, senior auxiliary, medical guardian, chief toxicologist, marijuana clubs, culture guardian, clothing vouchers, nursing auxiliary, guard vehicle, rehab centre, barracks number, barracks commander, female auxiliary, guard personnel, mobile rang, nicotine poisoning, command centre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frankie Thomson, Allie Kennedy, Ultimate Usquebaugh, Big Heat, Culture Directorate, Supply Directorate, Fordyce Kennedy, Water of Leith, Lewis Hamilton, Public Order Directorate, Fisheries Guard, Dirty Harry, Alexander Kennedy, Ice Queen, City Guard, Hilda Kennedy, Finance Directorate, Katharine Kirkwood, Napier Barracks, Peter Bryson, Medical Directorate, Millar Crescent, Princes Street, Wilfred Owen, Tourism Directorate New!
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I was lying in the Meadows with a book and a heat-induced headache, making the most of the shade provided by one of the few trees with any leaves left on it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
public order guardian, auxiliary training programme, poisoned whisky, tourism guardian, auxiliary knife, senior guardian, demoted auxiliary, demoted auxiliaries, senior auxiliaries, senior auxiliary, medical guardian, chief toxicologist, marijuana clubs, culture guardian, clothing vouchers, nursing auxiliary, guard vehicle, rehab centre, barracks number, barracks commander, female auxiliary, guard personnel, mobile rang, nicotine poisoning, command centre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frankie Thomson, Allie Kennedy, Ultimate Usquebaugh, Big Heat, Culture Directorate, Supply Directorate, Fordyce Kennedy, Water of Leith, Lewis Hamilton, Public Order Directorate, Fisheries Guard, Dirty Harry, Alexander Kennedy, Ice Queen, City Guard, Hilda Kennedy, Finance Directorate, Katharine Kirkwood, Napier Barracks, Peter Bryson, Medical Directorate, Millar Crescent, Princes Street, Wilfred Owen, Tourism Directorate New!
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- Black And Blue by Ian Rankin on page 32, and page 33
- Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery (Black & Blue) by Ian Rankin on page 32, and page 33
- Treasure Island (Classic Library) by Robert Louis, III Stevenson on page 16
- The Body Farm (Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell on page 260
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson on page 16
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- Time Out Edinburgh: Glasgow, Lothian, and Fife (Time Out Guides) by Dan Lerner on page 292
- Lonely Planet Edinburgh by Neil Wilson on page 42
- Time Out Edinburgh: Glasgow, Lothian and Fife (Time Out Guides) by Time Out in Back Matter
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