Series: Quintilian Dalrymple
Volume: 1
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0312202792
Pages: 272 pages
Publisher: St. Martins Press
Price: $22.95
Reader Rating: Not rated
Volume: 1
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0312202792
Pages: 272 pages
Publisher: St. Martins Press
Price: $22.95
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: Edinburgh 2020: After years of rioting and chaos, during which time the United Kingdom was dissolved into dozens of warring city-states, Edinburgh achieves stability thanks to the Council of City Guardians and their vision of a new Age of Enlightenment. It becomes the Body Politic.
The Council's goal of an independent city where television, private cars, and popular music are banned, where citizens are dedicated to the tourists attending the year-round Festival, and where crime is virtually nonexistent is shattered, however, when a brutal serial killer is discovered among their ranks. The killing of a guardswoman - the first murder in five years - and the chillingly familiar modus operandi are enough to scare the Council out of the complacency characteristic of their regime. It looks as if the Ear, Nose and Throat Man has returned, and leaders are forced to turn to the man they demoted years ago - the irreverent, blues-haunted Quintilian Dalrymple - to catch the gruesome killer.
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