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Boiling A Frog.
Christopher Brookmyre.

Little Brown And Company.
A Little, Brown Book
First published in Great Britain in 2000
by Little, Brown and Company
Copyright C Christopher Brookmyre 2000
The moral right of the author has been asserted.
All rights reserved.
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All characters in this publication are fictitious
and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead,
is purely coincidental.

HARDBACK ISBN 0 316 85190 6

C FORMAT ISBN 0 316 85191 4 .



For Nicola, who liked Fooaltiye.
Special thanks to Iain Ruxton, who would rather
have been no help at all. Thanks also: Marisa for her
ministrations, Roger Dubar for his verifications, Perg
for pressing motivation, POTZW for therapeutic
distraction and SMFC for palpitations.
KTF, FTOF.

author's note .

Amphibians are poikilothermic: their body temperatures

adapt automatically to changes in their environment, with-

out their noticing. Theoretically, this means that if you were

to put a frog in a pan of cold water, then turn up the
heat gradually enough, you could cook the poor creature