Boiling A Frog - Softcover

Chris Brookmyre was a journalist before becoming a full time novelist with the publication of 'Quite Ugly One Morning'. Since the publication of 'A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away' he and his family decided to move away from Aberdeen and now live near Glasgow. Oh, yes.

New Labour, the Scottish Parliament, the Catholic Church, the tabloid press, spin doctors - all of them are given a thorough knifing by Brookmyre's razor-sharp pen * MAXIM * This merciless satire is so painfully accurate that the political establishment will read it and weep . . . Boiling a Frog hits a tender spot that for MSPs, their acolytes and, more worryingly, their spin doctors will be uncomfortably close to home * SCOTSMAN * Hiaasen is one of America's finest satirists. Brookmyre is Britain's * OBSERVER * Surreal, satirical, irreverent, violent and immensely funny. * THE TIMES * New Labour, the Scottish Parliament, the Catholic Church, the tabloid press, spin doctors - all of them are given a thorough knifing by Brookmyre's razor-sharp pen * Maxim * This merciless satire is so painfully accurate that the political establishment will read it and weep . . . Boiling a Frog hits a tender spot that for MSPs, their acolytes and, more worryingly, their spin doctors will be uncomfortably close to home * Scotsman * Hiaasen is one of America's finest satirists. Brookmyre is Britain's * Observer * Surreal, satirical, irreverent, violent and immensely funny * The Times *