Edinburgh, 2025 - sweat city. Global warming has led to strict water rationing. The ruling Council of City Guardians has been forced to become more user-friendly - so citizens now live for the weekly lottery draw. Then people start dying after drinking poisoned whisky, and subversive, blues-haunted investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is thrown into a nightmare case which threatens the Council's very existence. For Quint, distinguishing friend from foe soon becomes a question of life or death. And the body count, like the temperature, keeps on rising...
- ISBN10 1322318883
- ISBN13 9781322318882
- Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 3 June 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint myilibrary.com
- Format eBook
- Language English