Body Politic
In his first crime novel Body Politic, published in 1997, featuring detective Qunitilian Dalrymple and set in Edinburgh in 2020, Paul Johnston features Fettes College as a ruin, “blown to pieces in 2009” after it became a base for drug traders.
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Famous quotes containing the words body and/or politic:
“In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have
been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)