Jack Parlabane #3 : Boiling a Frog (P)

Politics, prison, and Parlabane at his perilous best.

Jack Parlabane, the fearless investigative journalist known for bending the rules in pursuit of the truth, finally finds himself on the wrong side of the law—and behind bars. As he navigates the perils of prison life, he’s haunted by the stories he’s missing on the outside.

Meanwhile, Scotland’s fledgling parliament is reeling from its first major corruption scandal, and the Catholic Church of Scotland is seizing the moment to position itself as the moral compass of the nation. But behind the façade of political piety and spin doctoring lies a web of deceit darker than anyone imagined.

With his journalistic instincts firing and his survival skills tested to the limit, Parlabane must untangle the conspiracy from both sides of the prison walls. But when enemies on the inside want him silenced and powerful forces on the outside want him buried, will this be one story he can’t finish?

Sharp-witted, darkly funny, and dangerously thrilling, Boiling a Frog is Christopher Brookmyre at his satirical best.