by PaulJohnston (Author)
It's April 2028. Youth gangs roam the streets of independent Edinburgh, forcing the ruling Council of City Guardians to seek advice. Experts from the utopian university-state of New Oxford recommend an extreme deterrent - a maximum security prison alongside the central tourist zone. But at the prison opening ceremony an Edinburgh guardian is shot.
Quint gathers evidence linking New Oxford to the assassination. Sent there to close the case, he finds a ruthless administration beneath the glossy hi-tech veneer. And a conspiracy which leads from New Oxford's mysterious heart - the place known only as the House of Dust - to his home city.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 07 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0340766131
ISBN 13: 9780340766132
Book Overview: Quint Dalrymple's first investigation outside the former Scotland combines a taut highly original crime novel with pungent political comment.