"Brookmyre, Christopher - Boiling A Frog" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brookmyre Christopher)

to death before it realised it was in danger.
NB: The title of this novel is a metaphor, not a recipe.
The author is not in any way advocating or condoning
the boiling of frogs. Not if there's a perfectly healthy cat
available, anyway.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

- some sandal-wearing bleeding-heart
who got what was coming to him



what Jail is like .

'John Lapsley Parlabane. That you stand before this court
today will, I am sure, have come as a surprise to many,
not least your erstwhile smug and, as it turns out, disastrously complacent
self. However, to those with a more
rounded experience of your methods and morality, both
the beneficiaries and the victims of your self-righteous
and self-appointed crusading, it will remain a source of
bed-wetting astonishment that it has taken so long for the
forces of the law to bring themselves to bear upon your
arrogant and devious person.

'You are, in the well-chosen words of our Prime Minister

in describing your ilk, an unreconstructed wanker. To that

one might add that you have infinitely more to say for

yourself than your knowledge or experience could possibly justify, and that
I have seldom found myself passing
sentence on someone so evidently lacking the benefits of a
damn good kicking.

'You have thrust upon us your ill-informed, half-baked,

out-dated and, frankly, paranoid theories for a tiresome

number of years now, and the wonder of it is that anyone
continued to listen long enough for you to persist with the
behaviour that has ultimately led to your downfall. I would
remind you, Mr Parlabane, that paranoia is often merely
the flipside of egotism: both deludedly imagine the world
to revolve around oneself.

'While your journalistic exploits have occasionally enjoyed vindication in
the past, it should be evident to anyone